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Yosemite Book, hoping to finish It before sailing for the Amazon. I think likely that I will sail about the 15th of next month.
illegible I am having a good time but working hard as ever. It has been very, very hot in New York but up here on the Hudson
about a thousand feet above the sea, surrounded with green woods even the hot days are quite tolerable. As ever your devoted
father, illegible