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2 You are needed by the young men in our colleges. Solitude is a sublime mistress but an intolerable wife. When Heaven gives
the sign leave the mountains, come to my house live with me until you are tired of me then I will show you to better people.
Then came Gray more fine rambles sermons. He said When you get ready come to Harvard. You have good able enthusiastic friends
there we will gladly push you ahead etc etc etc So much for Ha-a-a-rvard. But you must surely know that I never for a moment
though of leaving God's big show. for a mere profship, call who may. The Agassiz sayings you refer to are more nearly true
than the college ones. Yosemite was my home when Agassiz was in San Francisco, I never saw him. When he was there I wrote
him a long icy letter telling what glorious things I had to show him urging him to come to the mountains. Bancroft Library