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Martinez, April 19th, 1890 Dear Mrs. Bidwell General, Ive been thinking of you every day since dear Parry died. It seems
as if all the good flower people, at once great good, have died now that Parry has gone: Torrey, Gray, Kellogg, Parry. Plenty
more botanists left but none we love like them. Men more amiable apart from their intellectual power I never knew - so perfectly
clean and pure they were - pure as lilies yet tough unyielding in mental fibre as live oaks. O dear It makes me feel lonesome
though many lovely souls remain. Never shall I forget the charming evenings I spent with Torrey in Yosemite with Gray after
the days rambles were over they told their stories of their lives, Torrey fondly telling all about Gray, Gray about Torrey,
all in one summer, and then