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Martinez Oct. 30, 1912 Dear friend Katharine Hooker I saw Marian last Saturday just for a moment as we stepped from a
train at the Palo Alto station. I was startled surprised as if she had suddenly appeared on one of my Amazon vine-tangled
jungle walks. Strange that we had been in adjacent cars without knowing it, as if in the eternal unfitness of these contrary
heart things neither long or short journeys together were ever to be allowed us. She was on a visit to a cousin I to the Kelloggs,
as we all met in a bunch on the station platform I had no chance to speak to her. Nevertheless the glimpse I got of her face
assured me that she was not hurt by overwork as I had feared but on the joyful contrary was in perfect health buoyant bright
as Aurora in springtime. At the Yosemite Park conference I had many opportunities to explain Hetch Hetchy park affairs in
general. Last Friday put the last touches on the Sierra Club's reply to engineer Freeman's one-sided plea for Hetch Hetchy
destruction and now I'm busy with my own natural