Yosemite Valley May 26th 1873 Dear sister Sarah I have just time to say that I hope you all are happy that I hope to escape
from all these rocks glaciers in after years so that I may rest amogst you. Yet I love the mountains with a stronger love
every year. I have some weeks of difficult work among glaciers that I discovered last year but will not commence it for a
month or so until the deepest snow melts. I hope sometime this season to make an excursion along the range north south to
lake Tahoe to Kings River Canon