8 Libby sent me Tyndalls new book have looked hastily over it. It is an Alpine minature of very pleasant taste I wish I
could enjoy reading talking at with you. I expect Mrs H will accompany her husband to the East this winter there will not
be one left with whom I can exchange a thought. Mrs H is going to leave me out all the books want Runkle is going to send
me Darwin, these with my notes maps will fill my winter hours if my eyes do not fail now that you see my whole position I
think that you would not call me to the excitements distracting novelties of civilization This bread question is very troublesome.
I will eat anything you think will suit me send up either by express to Oak deleted Big Oak Flat or by any other chance I
will remit the money required in any way you like in margin: My love to all more thanks than I can write for your constant
kindness 00612 5 In winter I can make my drawings maps write out notes. So you see that for a year or two I will be very
busy I have settled with Hutchings have no dealings with him now I think that next spring I will have to guide a month or
two for pocket money although I do not like the work. I suppose I might live for one or two seasons without work I have five
hundred dollars here I have been sending home money to my sisters brothers perhaps about twelve or fifteen hundred a man in
Canada owes me three or four hundred dollars more Wh I suppose I could get if I was in need but you know that the scotch do
not like to spend their cash dollar some of my friends are badgering me to write