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Accession their physical characters are closely similar I should enjoy a talk with you Letters are small contrivances of
but little value in scientific discussions, though they answer well enough for the conveyance of friendly greetings. I send
you an outline sketch of our Hoffman Camp, wh doubtless will touch a happy memory. May the mountain beauty wh you then absorbed
remain pictured in you forever, enrich the whole fabric of your life. drawing overtop some writing Blacks be here all lovely,
there valley with whom ought, I would Farewell cordially yrs Muir valley California (Via Big Oak Flat) A trail is being
made up Indian Canon another up the face of the mountain to glacier point a third one is in contemplation for Eagle point
via the rigged tangled canon wh Maxwell said would puzzle the saints wh you called The Valley 7333 00210