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4 completeness which can only come in living for others, in perfected home relations. My sons have been out for twenty four
hours after some grizzly bears; I can look up the mountain side scarcely more than three miles in an air line, where the canons
are so nearly inaccessible that the bears have half a county to themselves. They have visited the bee ranches nightly for
two or three weeks; and yesterday a regular hunt or as organized. The deer came down every few days but no one shoots them.
Our trees are full of birds. Dr Carr is heartier stronger than he was in Sacramento, but a good deal depressed at times from
the great change he misses the spur of daily duty. I am too busy to get the blues, and perhaps lack sympathy with natures
less hopeful. It easy to rejoice with those that rejoice, and this I do most heartily tonight, with the house of Muir Strentzel.
Love to John, illegible , its honored head, Your affectionate Jeanne C. Carr. in margin: 480b