3 letterhead Thence over to the west side of the peninsula by Patalka Gainesville to Cedar Keys on my old track made 32
year ago. At Archer I discovered most of the family who nursed me through a long fever. The old lady failed to recognize me
demanded my name, when I said Muir she almost screamed John Muir My California John Muir? how we talked over old times glad
to find we were not forgotten through all these long icy years sunny years You may imagine. I mean to stop a day or two at
Mobile with an old German botanical friend of Asa Gray to see the forests there at New Orleans with another botanist then
straight home.