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been very deeply interested with them am far from being done with them Excepting the woodnotes wh Mrs Carr read me the Barly
bumble bee' I have not seen any of your poems? before Since I cannot have yourself I want your photo- graph Ever Yours John
Muir John Muir July 1871 8 In a few days I start for the high Sierra East of Yosemite I would willingly walk all the
way to your Concord if so I could have you for a com- panion - the Indians hot plains would be nothing In particular I want
to study a certain pine tree at different elevations, the lavas of mous. The dear mother has told me one magnificent truth
since you were here. Two years ago I crossed the basin of Yosemite creek a mile or two back of the top of the falls observed
what appeared as indications of a glacier, again about a month ago I was upon Mt Hoffman on my return to the valley crossed
the Yosemite basin received still more satisfactory hints of the former existence of a glacier 5