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2.But my inclinations are toward the wilderness,and I hope to follow some such vocation as I hope at Grand View. I should
like very much to talk with you about the mountains of this State. Before leaving Arizona I made a visit to Adamana, and
spent two days with Stevenson. I enjoyed the locality very much, and was astonished at the diverse features of interest thereabouts,
besides the wood-my talk with you at Grand View had prepared me to appreciate the marvellous. deposit. Of'course the atmosphere
was full of you. I hope you and Miss Helen are in good health. Mrs. Goulding joins me in kindest regards to yew both. I should
be very glad indeed, to hear from you, or far better, if you are at home and ready to see folks now-a-days,I should like to
make a pilgrimage to Martinez for a day some time when I am San Francisco. Very trulyyours, illegible