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4 01575 by lectures, etc. Do you not think the B.C.SS. Co. would grant me some reductions in charges this summer? What I
have done what I shall do this year, will certainly be of advantage to them. Whom had I better write to about the matter?
Probably it would be better to address some indivial member of the company, rather than the company in general. The earliest
steamer I can get is the Queen sailing from Tacoma on June 21. As I can leave here on June 10, I 3 5 letterhead will
have about five days at leisure on the way across the country, and I thought if the weather was good that I should like to
spend them making the ascent of Mount Rainier. Won t you be good enough to tell me from what point it should be attacked,
where guides can be obtained, and whether or not I could make arrangements by mail; how long the climb would take, and any
other points you think would