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6 glowing with the beauties of nature and a scientific knowledge of them and who made one realize how much of beauty there
is in our daily environment which we continually pass by unnoticed then the magnificent views which burst before us at every
turn as we began the descent into the Yosemite Creek Basin, so beautifully paved? with do illegible and where you aptly took
your first lessons in Nature's sculpture, the trees, rocks and flowers all came in for their share of attention and from the
depths of our degenerate brains we realized how superficial is the knowledge gleaned from books when this page of Nature was
ofered to us and her hieroglyphics transferred into plain prose by a certain ROSETTA STONE at our sides I write this as Ina
Coolbrith did when telling a friend she had pleuro-pneumonia, saying, I write it in capitals because that's the way I had
it. Indeed I feel like using capitals to describe the entire trip, but my limited supply of ink incapacitates me; from making
even as large an exclamation point as yours after you had said something particularly nice about the members of Camp Cuervo,
however, a woman does not mind, having a dozen or more such compliments to string on the rosary of her remembrances, so I
thank you very much for the Crows illegible Kindly tell Mrs. Muir I shall take great pleasure in meeting her, in that she
knew my father, knowing and liking him, which were one and the same thing, is the open sesame to my heart. Tell Wanda and
Helen that we have no beautiful forests at El Cuervo but if they want ot learn to ride horseback to come up and let Paul teach
them. he is a very busy little lad these days-practices on the piano an hour a day and studies well. but isn't overly fond
of his books I am afraid.