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2 it for I wanted your autograph in a book of my own. You told me when I returned to Ross or S. F. that if I would send
one, I chose Yosemite, and put an inside wrapper on it addressed to me that you would write me a something on the fly leaf.
Now I am back at sea level, sighing still for Yosemite, and I have my book, but write this first to know if you are at home,
or whether you went to Alaska and have not yet returned. I am going to ask the favor of an answer to this as soon as you
do return, and have a chance to open your mail, and then I will send the book to you, already for return shipment. If I am
at all clear to you