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Letterhead: Pen Sentinel Hotel, A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley, May 31 1872 Dear Mrs Carr. Yours announcing
the Joaquin the Doggetts more is here I care not when you come so that you come calm timeful. I will try to compel myself
down to you in August but these years ages among snows rocks have made me far more unfit for the usages of civilization than
you can appreciate. My serve strings shrunk at the prospect even at this distance, But if by driving to that slimey town sea
bottom I can touch Huxley Tyndall mount again with you to calm months in the Sierras I will draw a long breath splash into
your fearful muds I would rather have you in Sep Oct than at any other time but a few weeks of this white water would be very
glorious. Merrill Moores who was with me in Wis and at your Madison home will be here soon to spend a good big block of a
while with me, why cant you let Allie join him? in margin: Tell Kellogg that there is one? here who will be ready to welcome
him in all kinds of times weathers, When he comes here, he will come to his own, His are the mtns the valleys his