3 3 have just been very hungry one meal in four days coupled with the most difficult nerve trying cliff work. This was on
Kings River a few weeks ago. Still strange to say I did not feel it much there seems to be scarce any limit to my endurance
I am far from being friendless here on this particular day I might have eaten a score of prodigions thank dinner if I could
have been in as many places at the same time but the more I learn of the world the happier seems to me the life you live.
You speak of your family gatherings of a weeks visit at Mothers here there Make the most of your priviliges to trust love
live in near unjealous generous sympathy with one another, for I assure you these are blessings scarce at all recognized in
their real divine greatness. Remember me to Jane Mitchell Root all the Galaways You ask whether you are to keep Mrs Moores
letter Keep it if you can for if she is no relation of Merrill Moores but a friend whose acquaintance I made here Merrill
is now a man. studying hard successfully in Yale College We had a company of fourteen at dinner tonight