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01414 2 ever seen. The engravings are beyond criticsm only surpassed by the descriptions. I shall await the other numbers
with impatience. I did not get to San Francisco at all after leaving Alaska. I bid farewell to my beautiful fruitful wilderness
in July '88, stopped a few weeks in Or. then went direct to Los Angeles, soon settled at Long Beach, where I preached until
the first of last month. I have come to Pa. to remain. I shall soon be settled, I hope, over a good congregation, where I
shall have a good field of usefulness, where I shall receive a salary sufficient for my wants those of my family. I hope at
last to have a home, which is a luxury I have never yet enjoyed. My dear wife my two girls, Abbie - 10 1/2, Alaska, 9, are
still at Long Beach. I don't want them to travel in the hot season, 3 I want to have a place all ready for them when they
do come. I keep quite busy, lecturing, preaching writing. I have at last commenced my book on Alaska. It will be a narrative
of personal experiences impressions. My life was so full of adventure there that it ought not to lack variety. The descriptions
of scenery will give me most pleasure in writing, the long poems you I read together on the sublime pages of that country
will occupy a principal place. The adventure I tell oftenest, with most effect in lectures sermons is your rescue of my helpless
self from that frightful predicament in the mountain. And believe me, my wonder at your strength gentle skill, and my gratitude,
grow with the years. I shall publish some of the chapters of my book in the