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1 New Snellings Merced Co Feb 24th 1869 Dear Mrs Carr Your two California notes from San Francisco San illegible reached
me last evening I rejoice at the glad tidings they bring of your arrival in this magnificent land. I have thought of you hundreds
of times in my seasons of deepest joy, amid the flower purple gold of the plains the fern fields in gorge canon the sacred
waters, tree columns, eternal unnameable sublimities of the mountains, of all my friends you are the only one that understands
my motives enjoyments. Only a few weeks ago a true liberal minded friend sent me a large sheetful of terrible blue steel orthodoxy
calling me from clouds flowers, to the practical walks of politics philanthropy, Mrs Carr thought I never lectures thus, I
am glad indeed that you are here to read for yourself these glorious lessons of sky plain mountain which no mortal power can
ever speak, I thought when in the Yo Semite Valley last spring that the Lord had written things there that you would be allowed
to read sometime I have not made a single friend in Cola you may be sure I strode home last evening from the post office feeling
rich indeed