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2 will content me; nor reconcile me to leaving this earth at last, for another and an unknown world. I was pleased that
Mt. Clark should remind you of me, though I fear the illegible I applied to it was first used by Byon in speaking of Mt. Soraete.
How approporiate it is to the Italian peak. I know not; but it is certainly an exact description of Mt. Clark-, which is the
only mt. with that shape I have ever seen. I remember well that glorious panorama of the Sierras from Glacier Point. - the
grandest view of a mountain world I ever saw. All other points in our California journey fade a little in my mind, as time
wears away, but the Yosemite seems to grow, rather, in splendor and distinctness every time I think about it, and that is
every day, nearly. I hope to see 3 your account of the great storm, in the Overbend? . Here, what a different life I
lead I pass my days in attendance upon Womans' Club meetings, (you know I am one of the strong minded, ) Radical Club discussions,
Woman Suffrage Conventions, and exciting intellectual talks at the houses of friends; and if it were not for a broad glimpse
of sky and of the tree-tops of Boston Common from my window, I should almost forget that there was any other world then that
of gas-lighted parlors and halls. We at the Hub have to super illegible the crank of the illegible , and of course? we all
have our theories about how it should be turned. I am not writing just now, as my health, weakened by last summers' journeyings
and by too much exciting life since, seemed to require me to rest. In two months, therefore, 00568