2 once I have found myself feeling genuinely homesick for the mountains and pines. Your chapter on the water ousel was of
particular interest to me. I have watched the little fellow as I fished for trout in the White Mountains in New Mexico - on
the noisiest of little mountain streams in 1887 - and I well recall the delight in finding him again ten years later on the
streams of the Yellowstone region in Wyoming and Montana. - and again in the Yosemite. To think of the? ousel as all is sure
to make any one of his acquaintances - think of the wildest of the mountain country - and all its 3 invigorating, health
giving air - and the long remembered fragrance of the pines and the firs- When you were here in the spring I was located
at San illegible a Mesa Barracks about three miles from the center of illegible - In June we moved to Cuartel de Espana diacritic
which is within the walled city and only about a block and a half from the Army Navy Club which you will remember - In July
in addition to my regular duties I was elected to be Sec'y Treas of the Army Navy Club - and also to be Sec'y Treas. of the
Military Order of the Carabao. These positions have brought me many responsibilities - as in the former position I p illegible
ally have the immediate