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2 almost into John Muir s place. It would never do to say, quite. Long the girls had waited for the return of their early
friend. At length, He cometh not, they said and opened their doors to the Professor. Now will you open the doors of your valley
or of your home wherever it is and take in our friends. Mr. Gilbert is a class mate of mine, a member of 79, a wide-awake,
pleasant boy, who doesn t wish to be called a young gentleman. I said to me of the boys not long ago, Mr. Gilbert has good
luck, Well, he deserves it was the reply. I think you will find him after your own heart, for like you, his friends are birds
and flowers as well as people. We read of your being in Alaska. Cannot you find as interesting 3 places on the Atlantic
Coast? I know you can find as inter- esting, or perhaps I should say as interested people. We have been happy this last week
to shake hands with Pres. Grant a Julia Ward Howe, but I think if John Muir were to return, he would find, if not a inder
welcome, a warmer one Mamma has not been well this fall, but is better now. She sends her love. The rest of us are as usual;
Charles, a strapping fellow, a school-teacher, no longer the little Prince Charley , whom you once knew, Merrill a famous
law student as much of a Scamp as ever As for Janet she is a jack of all trades master of none.