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Headwaters of the Tuolumne near Castle peak Aug 7 69 Mrs Butler, Dear friend I found your prof' a few weeks ago in the Sierra
Neveda Mts', in the very Yo Semite sanctum itself, Among the divine harmonies of the Vernal? Nevada falls. I do not know where
you first met your Professor, but surely I might venture to say that it was south in so goodly a mansion as this, not amid
such blazing assemblies of Gods mountain grandeur. I have been taking care of 2500 sheep in the mountains all summer. Your
husband wrote me a letter in May which I rec'd in July when I was camped in a maze of sharply cut mountains a days journey
about Coulterville. Shortly after receiving his letter we moved our sheep higher camped upon the North Wall of the Yo-Sem'
Valley two miles from the brink. We remained here nearly three weeks almost every day I wandered among the Valley domes falls
sketching absorbing from the inex- haustable treasuries of glory that are gathered here. When suddenly I was seized with the
idea of going down into the valley to find Prof' Butler I knew a way through the wall by an immense canon or chasm I felt
that I would be resisting the spirit if I did not go started for the Valley next day; reached the bottom in five hours, consulted
the hotel register found D? Butler Madison Wis. I could scarce believe my eyes read the precious words over over at last got
faith to believe that after