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1870 (1869?) Tuolumne river - Two miles below La Grange, Sep 22th Dear Doctor Dan Your notes of June 25 Aug 28 have
just reached me For the last four months I have been away from post offices at the summit of the great Sierra Nevada mountains
among the stored up treasures of everlasting snow? As to your proper fraternal feeling in regard to a more frequent interchange
of illegible thoughts I would state that I will always be glad to scribble you some sort of a pow wow in response to any of
yours be they of a illegible handle, medical, theological or scientific character As to that 60 dollars you may keep it untill
you emerge a burning a shining light from Ann Arbor wise men bones Her Doctor are a few feelings facts from my experiences
which may be of use to you in your Esculapism researches. I was very hungry in Georgia having eaten only about one meal 15?
or so hours. My mind was unclouded, memory clear, appetite good, the forest trees seemed to be running round in a circle illegible
all of the streams by the roadside seemed to be running up hill. - One time this summer in the mountains we got out of flour,
all we had to eat was mutton molasses candy. A staff of life composed of this material is to say the least Doctor in margin:
Goodnight Dan the MD or DM. May you be very successful in counting rickety pulses illegible old sores. Dr. Carr of Madison
Wis. is now Prof in Cal State University. I saw Prof Butler last Aug in the Yo Semite Valley. illegible just read in letter
from illegible telling that he has sailed for the illegible islands. I have enjoyed a month illegible among the glorious sublimities
of God's mountains. May you live to enjoy the like? from your illegible bro John