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in margin: 64 letterhead: Pen Sentinel Hotel A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley July 6th 187 2 Dear Mrs Carr.
Yours of Tuesday eve telling of our Doggetts Ned Merrill Moores, has come. so has the lamp book I Have not yet tried the lamp
but it is splendid in shape shines grand as gold. The Lyell is just what I wanted I think that your measure of the Doggetts
is exactly right, as good as civilized people can be They have grown to the top of town culture have sent out some shoots
half- gropingly into the spirit sky. I am very glad to know that Ned is growing strong, perhaps we may South America together
yet. I hope to see you come to your own of mountain fountains soon Perhaps Mrs Hutchings may go with us. You live so fully
in my own life that I cannot realize that I have not yet seen you here, a year or two of waiting seems nothing Possibly I
may be down on your