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2 owes me money that I have a lot of loose notes outline sketches to work up I should set out for S. America at once As
it is I shall very likely remain where I am for a few months return to the mountains in the Spring. I wish in particular to
trace some of the upper Yosemite streams farther more carefully than I have yet done I shall dip yet once more into the fathomless
grandeur of the valley - - - I am in comfortable quarters at present within sight hearing of the Tuolumne, on a smooth level
once the bottom of a shallow lake like expansion of the river where it leaves the states Evening purple on the Mtns seen through
an ample gap up the Tuolumne is of t illegible beauty. the purest best, The sheet gold of 3 the plain compositves will
soon be lighted in the sun days of spring, deepening glowing yet brighter as it spreads away over the sphere fluted illegible
of this old ocean bed - You must not fail to see the April gold of the Joaquin - - - - - - - - - - - - - -- - - - I send here
with a letter to Mrs Yelverton in your care as you will be likely to know where she is. I have just read a letter which she
left for me at Snelling giving an account of her fearful perils in the snow. It seems strange to me that I should not have
known felt her anguish in that terrible night, even at this distance. She told me that I ought to wait guide her out, I feel
a kind of guiltiness in not doing so Since writing the above, Yours