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weather water will permit - I had fully expected to be of their party this summer, but that is now out of the question -
how I regret it you can im- agin from the amount of enjoyment I experienced while there last summer, but I do not despair
of visiting there once more for I love the mountain river gods with the heart of a child of nature al- though I have been
brought up in the midst of luxury, the civilization you dislike so much - I have thought of you this winter as busy with your
writing, shall hope to hear well she is much better than she was in the winter, all thoughts of leaving her must necessarily
be banished for a time, Father rob return to us in June some- time, or as soon as my uncles return from the Yo Semite- I judge
from that, that Father Rob will not go with them, but they may change their minds before the time comes to go - at any rate
I hope you will meet my two uncles John Frank who will probably go into the Valley as soon as