letterhead Yosemite Valley, Cal. June 18, 1906 My dear Mr. Muir:- This will surprise you but also explain our not going
to see you again in Berkeley. We started for the valley in a few hours notice and are to be here three weeks have been here
almost a week now. It is all as you have expressed it and so much wonder confined in a few miles is illegible od . One of
these water-falls and one cliff would be enough but it is as nature? usually does things most lavishly done? . The water
is very high the whole valley has been flooded. Many of the trails we have not been able to take but we have gone to Glacier
Point and yesterday went to see the rainbow at Bridal Veil Falls. The memory of that is a pot of gold. This is all and old
old story to you and 03744