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4 How grand an outburst of bloom there will be about your home when the spring sunshine is warm what a rising from the dead
in the dry levels cast of your house among the gilias newsphilas daisies. Go ahead with your botany, make your floral hay
while your free summer days last Remember me to the General I will see you when ever I can. Cordially your friend, John Muir.
1 920 Valencia St. San Francisco, Feb 17th 1879. Dear Mrs Bidwell, I have no distinct memory of the incident that has
given you so much uneasiness. So you see how unfounded it was. I was sorry to have missed seeing the General, I went out to
your friends on Ellis St to find out where he was stopping, then hastened to the Occidental? , but he had returned to Chico
the day before. As to the cordial invitation to your pretty home I can only assure you both that I warmly appreciate your
kindness will make use of it without reserve whenever deleted: I fate or the wind or providence pushes me to Chico. I usually
address envelope: Mrs General Bidwell. Chico Butte County, California.