Lake Merced July 9, 1909 Darling Helen: I hope you are well in your dry desert. It is so cold here this morning we are all
shivering seeking places at fires. We are at breakfast 175 of us, what a jolly sight most of the girls know you make kind
inquiries for you. This is one of my favorite camps grounds of the auld lang syne. It is delightful to revisit it. O the beauty
charm of the floods of living water