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from you a copy of that Gray letter to Kellogg which was not delivered. I had a glorious ramble in the Santa Cruz woods have
found out one very interesting picturesque fact concerning the growth of this Sequoia. I mean to devote many a long week to
its study. What the illegible may be I cannot guess, But you know I am never sent? empty away. I made an excursion to the
summit of Mt Hamilton in extraordinary style accompanied by Allen, Norton, Bravley , all the lady professors their friends
A curious contrast to my ordinary underlined: still underlined: hunting . Spent a week at San Jose, enjoyed my visit with
Allen very much. Lectured to the faculty on Methods of study without undergoing any very great scare. I believe I wrote you
from Los Angeles about my Passadena week. Have sent a couple of letters to the Bulletin from there not yet published. I
have no unflexible? plans as yet for the remaining months of the season, but Yosemite seems to place itself as a most persistent
candidate for my winter I shall soon be in flight to the Sierras or illegible . I seem to give up hope of ever seeing your
calm again. Dont grind too hard at these Sacramento miles, Remember me to the Doctor Allie Ever Yrs Cordially John Muir