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Mother was taken violently ill, - So ill as to make me tremble for the result, - and in the care of her, and the crowding
of my many other duties, I have had no time nor thought for anything else. I have been able to give the Library only one hour
in the evening and into that have condensed the work of the underlined: ten , daily ex pected of me. O John Muir John Muir
Bless the destiny which has permitted you to wander through such ? ways of pleasantness ; for were you to change with me even
for a little space, with no more hope of escape, I doubt if you would accept existence longer, at such heavy cost . Well,
it was a balsamy little let ter that you sent me, tho if you could have enclosed a lake or a mountain , or even a cup of cold,
life-giving water from the one,