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to add my thanks to his for your great kindness. It has increased the debt of gratitude we already owed to you for giving
us the great pleasure of being your travelling companions through so many beautiful lands, we have climbed with you the heaven
kissing hills traversed glaciers and rested under the giant Sequoias and you have brought into sick rooms the fresh? m illegible
ating a illegible of nature which stimulates the mind and through it, the stricken body. I shall also thank our dear Mrs.
Bidwell for her kindness and hope you will