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1 letterhead: Pen Sentinel Hotel, A. C. BLACK, Proprietor. Yo Semite Valley, April 25 1872 Dear brother sister Sarah
David Galloway, Your well filled envelope reached our valley this morning. I have read all the letters little great with a
relish that you cannot well appreciate, Nothing connected with your life can be trivial or uninteresting to me. I wish you
would write oftener, The childrens letters are as George says of the peacocks Superb Celias Scripture is an epistolary wonder
both in composition execution If must be a deep constant delight to you that they all are developing so very remarkably well.
I will write them in answer no I have a log cabin half made up the the valley in a clump of cornus bushes on the river bank
00590 4 although all were new a few mos ago. I wish you or Maggie would knit me a pair strong ones send by mail They
would cost little postage but would save my feet this summer. Mtn' walking is severe on feet. I never petted snakes but they
occasionally visited mw. My cabin was over under inter grown with ferns, little green tree frogs were abundant amond them
about the edge of the creek that ran along the edge of the floor. I have not seen my winter letters in the Tribune. Please
send me copies of each as you meet if need be I will return them. The glacier article was in the 5th Dec' issue, not the 9th)
I may write a few more sut will likely be busy in the mtns after the snow melts I shall hope to see you all here some day.
Hearty thanks David for your care of the mud pond dear to Nature to me.