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1 Muir Yosemite Valley Feb 22' 1873 Dear Dr Gray Your letter of Jan 14th arrived just before our trails were snow blocked.
The seeds I sent in a letter envelope are Libo- cedrus decu illegible As for the express charges on the primula box I have
not got the recipt by me cannot tell what they amounted to but you must remember that you gave me money sufficient to prepay
all such boxes for a year to come Next summer I will find a new genus a in margin: Ever very cordially yrs John Muir
4 They know little of the character of a pine tree who see it only when swaying drowsily in a summer breeze or when balanced
motionless fast asleep in hushed sunshine Our Laurel was in flower a month ago, so was our winter wheat (Libo cedrus) We are
grandly snowbound have all this winter glossy of sunlight storm shade to ourselves Our outside doors are locked, who will
disturb us? I call your attention to the two large yellow purple plants from the top of Mt Lyell, above all of the pinched
blinking dwarfs that almost justify Darwins mean ungodly ward, Struggle They form a rounded expansion upon the wedge of plant
life that slants up into the thin lean sky. They are the noblest plant mountaineers I ever saw, climbing above the glaciers
into the frosty a illegible flowering in purple gold, rich abundant as ever. in margin: responded to the thick, creamy sun
gold of the tropics