Have been at work every morning for weeks weeks at 5 o'clock to about 8 P. M. Fell asleep day before yesterday pen in hand
though can't sleep much in bed. Hope to rest on way to the great hot river. You have time to write me a line of goodbye to
above address. Heaven's peace be yours dear Katharine I adamantly? pray. Your very friend John Muir N. Y. c/o Professor
H. F. Osborn My dear everlasting friend I'm so glad to see by your letters that you are finding your way, aiming straight
ahead in newness of life. God's best good luck to you my word of farewell. I leave Philadelphia on the fifteenth of this month
for the Amazon direct all alone as usual. I'm well but very tired finishing Yosemite book