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Thanking mo for 150 Photos Others previous to this are lost Sierra Nevada San Gabriel Mts Martinez, Oct. 18, 1895 Reproduced
from the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for reference only. Permission necessary for reproduction
My dear Mr Lukens, Your kind letter generous package of photographs arrived safely have thus placed me deeper than ever
in your debt. I knew that north Tuolumne country in a general way--knew that its glacial phenomena were on a grand scale especially
heavy but the details you give me in the pictures letter are very interesting make me wish I had played truant a week or two
longer gone with you. Anyhow I'm going to Pasadena to hear your story unless you come here soon. I was afraid the little rain
we had in the lowlands might work you harm in the mountains as a violent storm though on the other hand I felt pretty confident
in your mountain craft for all storms are kindly when