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4 precious gift, your son who has brought joy and steadfast blessedness to my heart and life. illegible However it be, I
trust that before many months we shall all meet in the delight of a grand reunion: parents and children and grandchildren.
I long to see that lovely Fountain Lake where John first knew the charm of the fresh wilderness: and the exquisite water-lilies:
how the blue eyes of baby Annie Wanda will shine over their snowy chalices 1 Louie s letter to mother Martinez, California
Sept. 29th, 1881. Dear Mother Muir Glorious news to-day from the far, far North Our beloved wanderer is coming home Safe
and well, through all the perils of the Arctic seas and storms and terrible ice-fields he comes with rejoicing, for he has
looked at last upon that wild mysterious realm of the Ice-King, Wrangel Land; and now he is satisfied to come again to the
clear sunshine of his South-land home. Perhaps before October is half gone, he will be here: and 06099