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Bancroft Library Martinez, cal. July 7, 1897 My dear Mr Kip. I thank you for kindly letting me know your summer trail?
I am going to join Prof. Sargent of Cambridge in a tramp through the Rockies in British Columbia to study Picea this summer.
I shall probably leave home about the first of August may miss you, still it is possible I may have the pleasure of seeing
you at the Palace Hotel S.F. on the 3d. I may even meet you somewhere on the Great Northern R.R. Anyhow you will hear from
me. I have a sister here from the east who wants to go to Yosemite. Have you any ladies with you? If so, I would be glad
to have you take her in charge.