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Martinez, Sep. 25, 1895 My dear Mother, I'm fairly settled at home again and the six weeks mountaineering of this summer
in my old haunts are over now live only in memory notebooks like all the other weeks in the Sierra. But how much I enjoyed
this excursion or indeed any excursion in the wilderness I am not able to tell. I must have been born a mountaineer the climbs
scootchers of boyhood days about the old Dunbar Castle on the roof of our house made fair beginnings. I suppose old age will
put an end to scrambling in rocks ice, but I can still climb as well as ever. I am trying to write another book but this
is harder than mountaineering. We are all well as usual. Mrs. Strentzel is somewhat better. Maggie is looking unusually well.
She was here this afternoon Helen Wanda are very well Louie about as usual. So are David's folks. David is making fair headway
on his new business. I got the paper you sent about old Dunbar memories was much interested 87 in margin: Love to all.
I wish I could see You. Ever affectionately Your Son John