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2 myriads of joyous plant beings clothed in rosy golden light, what would old illegible or Mrs Carr say to this - I was
sorry to think of the loss of your letters but it is just what might be expected from the wretched mail arrangements of the
south. I am not surprised to hear of your leaving Madison and am anxious to know where your lot will be cast, If you go to
South Am' soon I shall hope to meet you, if you should decide to seek the illegible of the Pacific in Cala' before the end
of the year I shall find you be glad to make another visit to the Yo Sem.' with your doctor Priest accord- ing to the old
plan. I know the way up the swells to the falls, I know too the abode of many a precious mountain fern, I gathered plenty
3 for you but you must see them at home, not an angel could tell a illegible of these glories. If you make home in Cala',
I know from experience how keenly you will feel the absence of the special flowers you love no others can fill their places,
heaven itself would not answer without Calypso illegible - I think that you will find in Cala' just what you desire in climate
scenery, for both are so varied. March is the spring time of these plains, April' the summer May is Autumn, the other months
Dry, wet winter, uniting with each other, with the other seasons by splices overlappings of very simple very int illegible
kinds. I rode illegible the seasons in going to the Yo Sem- last spring I started from the Joaquin