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4 of Nov 19th is received directed to the Tuolumne River etc You are glad that I am kindly disposed towards South America
but a year is a long time, etc but to me a Yosemite year is a very little measure of time or rather a measureless formless
mas of time which can in no manner be geomet- rically or Arithmetically delt with but Mrs Carr, why do you wish to cut me
from California graft me among the groves of the p illegible . Please write the reason This Pacific sunshine is hard to leave.
If souls are allowed to go a rapping visiting where they please I think that unbodied I will be found wallowing in California
light If the bulbs were lost I will procure some more for you if you do not send me up the Amazon before next fall 00525
1 Near La Grange Cala Dec 22d 1870 Dear Mrs Carr, It is so long since I have heard from you that I begin to think you
have sent a letter to Yosemite. I am feeling lonely again require a word from you. Some time ago Mr Hutchings wrote me saying
that he would re- quire my shingle cabin for his sister so I am homeless again. I expected to pass the winter there writing
sketching etc in making exploratory raids back over the mountains in the snow but Mr Hutchings jumping my nest after expressly
promising to keep it for me, has broken my pleasant lot of plans. I am at work making new ones. Were it not that mr Hutchings