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4 I shall hope to hear from you soon, I will come down some of the valley canons occasionally for letters I am sorry that
you are so ladin with University cares I think that you the Doctor do more than your share Do you know anything about this
Liebigs extract of meat I would like to carry a years pro- vision in the form of condensed bread or meat I have been thinking
perhaps all that I want is in the market 00549 1 1871 Yosemite Aug 13th Dear friend, I was so stunned dazed by your
last that I have not been able to write anything I was sure that you were coming you cannot come, Mr King the artist left
me the other day, I am done with Hutchings I am lonely Well it must be, wait, for although there is no common human reason
why I should not see you civilization in Oakland. I cannot escape from the powers of the mountains I shall tie some flour
a blanket behind my saddle return to the Mono region try to decide some questions that require undisturbed thought. Then I
will stalk about over the summit slates of Dana Gibbs illegible ell reading new chapters of glacial manuscript