4 Evening Bulletin. Wh I suppose you have seen I wonder how you all are faring in your wildernesses educational departmental
institutional etc write me a line here in care of Sisson I thin it will reach me on my return from Icy Shasta Farewell Ever
Cordially Yrs John Muir Love to all Keith the boys McChesneys etc. Dont forward any letters from the Oakland Office I
want only mountains until my return to civil 00699 1 95 Sissons Station Nov 1st 1874 Dear Mrs Carr. Here is icy
Shasta fifteen miles away yet at the very door. It is all close wrapt in clean young snow down to the very base? illegible
Mass of white from the dense black forests girdle at an elevation of five or Six thousand feet to the very summit The extent
of its individuality is perfectly wonderful. When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley
I was fifty miles away afoot alone weary yet all my blood turned to wine