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New York City Wednesday Apr. 9th 1873 My dear Mr Muir. Out of all the noise bustle of this busy world I write to you
longing for the rest quiet of your underlined: Valley , which now seems farther away than ever, for I have given up all idea
of returning to Cala for the present. My sister is quite miserable, having injured her lip in some way is, or has been lame,
but although not from you soon that the book has been given to the public, that I may get it in reading it imagine myself
once more nearer the Giver of all Good - I had a nice letter from Mrs. Moore not long ago at most the first one she had written
since her illness, but Charlie Stoddard I have not heard from for a long time probably because I allowed such a long time
to lapse between his last letter the answer. I return to my home in the country in about two weeks, to get it ready to receive
the wanderers, but we may be back in Cala. again before we are aware of it, as father I fear will not be able to 00657