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1 Yosemite Valley Nov 2d 1875 Dear Sister Sarah, Here is your letter with the Dalles in it I m glad you have escaped so
long from the c illegible sewing baking to Gods green wild Dalles dells for I know you were young again that the natural love
of beauty you possess had free fair play I will never forget the big happy day I spent there in the rocky gargy Wisconsin
above Kilbourn City What lanes full of purple orchids ferns. Aspedium fragraus I found these for the first time. what hillsides
of huckleberries rare asters golden rods Dont you wish you were wild like me as free to satisfy 2 your love for whatsoever
is pure beautiful. I returned last night from a two a half months excursion through the grandest portion of the Sierra Nevada
forests You remember reading of the big trees of Cal illegible eras county discovered fifteen or twenty years ago, well I
have been studying the Specied Sequoia Legantea) have been all this time wandering amid those giants They extend in a broken
in terrupted belt along the western flank of the range a distance of 180 miles, But I will not attempt to describe them here.
I have written about them will send you printed descriptions I often feel alarmed about Joannas health. from what