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4 not dare tell you such things All your treasures are safe just as you left them. Mary Frances did not get a situation
here at the June vacation and went back to Olema but hopes to get in here before the rainy season. We miss you and regret
you I think you ought to feel proud of the place you have won in all our hearts We have summered and wintered you and love
you still. Familiarity has bred respect esteem and regard It is a in margin: 96 remarkable instance It is usually the other
way. When you come back I am prepared to talk you deaf about my summers experiences. I know I shall have a sympathetic listener
O Mt Shasta O Castle Lake O glorious falls on the Sacramento And O the hard-backed horses I have ridden, the streams I have
underlined: forded the mountains I have climbed. Yours truly M. L. Swett. in margin: Don t you twib me with not knowing
how to spell familiarity. I do know how you see. 1 in margin: I was amused at your disclaimer of responsibility in regard
to that last fearful exposure to thirst O underlined: do try and keep out of such scrapes, or Mrs. Carr and I underlined:
will scold. But you acted like a hero in the end. L. T. ? Sept. 12, 1878. Dear John Muir. It is about a week since we
got your letter in which you gave us your address for the next fifteen days, so this may be too late to reach you but perhaps
it will follow you so here goes at a venture. One of the most delightful summers of my life was the one just gone and Lissons
the nearest Paradise of any place I have yet seen. I am glad you have been there it would be too discouraging to try to convey
with the pen any adequate idea of the softness of the climate, the magnificence of the scenery, the exhilaration of the mountain
air, the luxury