4 the precinct of Montecito. We have no PO in this precinct. I am not strong enough to ramble about much. I wished for your
opinion last summer while I was visiting some of the canons in the upper part of S.B. Valley. It is said there are no evidences
of the action of glaciers below Monterey in this State. I imagined I saw something that looked like it in New Annie Canon.
illegible illegible Ranch I would be delighted to see you and learn more of your adventures illegible in what we both feel
so enthusiastically about illegible illegible of it if we are called Mountaineers. I have often longed to be with you. How
much I wished to be with you when at Alaska I am nearly an old 79 illegible . It is hard work for me to give up the struggle.
illegible illegible . I don t know now when I shall visit San Francisco in margin: I may this fall or early winter Wehenever
I do I hope to see you. Give my warmest regards? to Mrs. Muir Yours truly N.D. Stebbing 1 Santa Barbara Cal. June 21/80
My dear friend John Muir Today I was more than pleased to have a letter put into my hands which had your autograph attached
to it. Some weeks since at one of my calls on a lady friend nearby in conversation your name came up. They said the lady I
saw a notice in a paper that Mr. Muir was married. That opened my illegible . I illegible you saying that you loved the mountains
you believed that they loved you. The question arose in my mind illegible he got illegible from his old loves? I ll see had
wrote to Mr Carr enquired about your whereabouts - status Only a few days since? I received an answer confirming the news
glorious news too I intended before this to have written to you