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2 that you had been in the Yosemite Valley with President Taft Our Minister Mr Borland who had got a loan of your 'Mountains
of California I enjoyed it much, asked it for a friend a Revd Dr Paul parish minister of the Grange Edinburgh who sent it
back to him with the enclosed 3 letter I thought it might interest you to see this letter (dont send it back). I saw Paul
had been lecturing on Botany at Ty illegible home? the other week, Mother is well but very feeble but was able to get out
in her chair in the Summer but it is too cold for that now