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be in Oakland in two weeks so I made up a package for you of lily bulbs, cones, ferns etc but she wrote me a few days ago
that she was still in the valley. I find that a portion of my specimens collected in the last two years and left at this place
Hopeton are not very well cared for I have concluded to send them to you. I will ship them in a few days by express I will
be down myself perhaps in about a year. If there is anything in these specimens that the Dr' Carr make use of in his lectures
tell him to do so freely of course The purple of these plains of this whole round sky is very impressively glorious after
a year in margin: in the deep rocks. People all thriving illegible are beginning to hear of Dr. Carr he accomplishes a
00523 1870 Tuolumne river two miles below La- Grange Nov 4th Dear friend Mrs Carr Yours of Oct 2d reached me a few days
since, The Amazon Andes have been in all my thoughts for many years I am sure that I shall meet them some day ere I die, or
become settled civilized useful I am obliged to you for all of this information I have studied many paths plans for the interior
of South America but none so easy sure ever appeared as this of your letter I thought of landing at Guayaquil crossing the
mountains to the Amazon float to Para, subsisting on berries quinine but to steam along the palmy shores with in margin:
wonderful amount of work. My love to Allie to the Dr I am ever most cordially yours John Muir