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Yosemite Valley Nov 14th 1873 Dear Sister Sarah Have just got down the mtn side from my long trip find a large pile of letters
One from you with Annas photo It is very good indeed, she is developing splendidly you say yet another Galloway What a thicket
of underbrush is growing up around you How truly rich you David are in all that is worth having children love land, Tell David
not to work too hard, one gets into the habit of it soon comes to believe that everlasting high pressure labor is absolutely
necessary. If we could accomplish ten times as much we would still be apt to work at the top of our bent driven by the same
species of necessity. Be economical learn to do without things gain leisure to look up. There is a sermon for you. I have
traveled over a thousand miles in this last excursion climbed more mtns than I hoped to climb Have had a very instructive
trip in every way Reached the highest Mtn top in the range, perhaps the highest in North America 14900 feet