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6 what you write touching all this or anything else- for you have few more sincere lovers of your books, or articles or
talks than your old friend whose hair is growing no darker and whose face no younger - but in all he loses he loves the more
your poetry of nature, and our matchless interpretation - and thank heaven he is permitted to see so much with your eyes -
Do you, or let the girls, call my attention to it all 7 during the few years that remain to me- You are blessed that so
much light remains to lighten your home. So long away from so rich a nature only can be made up for by days or nights of
talk. We shall be back in a few days but my own home is broken up, though my son's is open to me. It is all so much more
difficult in a great illegible city, to reestablish an ingle side. On board, there is a Captain Francis Ward wife of Kenwood
Senoma County - who much desire to join the Sierra Club- Perhaps the Secty