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resolved upon doing the Valley; and before their stupid your Nevada will fling down her laces, and in their stupid eat? Yo
Semite will illegible her illegible , and the Vernal will print her wavering luminous rainbows at their feet. But, though
they shall tread in the chamber of the gods, the gods shall keep the full glories of their inner? c illegible sacred from
their gaze. Let us know what further book we can send you; and whenever you are too illegible to write f illegible sha illegible
deis for the p illegible illegible us a few lines to let us know how it fares with you. Very Truly Your Friend. Abba G. Molson.
in margin: 67 00653 1 Boston A Chauncy St.? Mch. 23./73. Dear Mr. Muir, Although you have not deigned to take any
notice of a long letter which I dispatched to you last Fall, I am deposed to be magnauim out and forgiving toward one who
has to many noble and engrossing objects to occupy his thoughts. I am sure that if I went to abide under the shadow of El
Capitan, with the South Dome and Yo Semite Fall before my eyes, all sounds from the outer world which might creep over the
rocky lo illegible that enclosed me would seem too far-away and feeble to demand any immediate attention. It is then that
I explain your silence, and so long as you will write to the world at large such refreshing letter as that we read the other
evening in our own Boston Lanscript I will postpone any private and individual claims? which I might have, and be content
with my share of the general communication.