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In going to take your painter boys with me into one of my best sanctums on your recommendation for holiness, Emerson has
sent me a profound little book styled The Growth of the Mind by Reed. Do you know it. It is full of fountain truth. Im glad
your boys are safely back. Perhaps Ned I may try that Andes field together. I would write to Mrs Moore but will wait untill
she is better. Tell her the cascades monntings of upper Hetch Hetch Hetch Hetch I hope I may see you a few days soon I had
a pretty letter from old Dr Torrey, from Gray I have heard three or four times. I am ever cordially yrs John Muir