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1 Yosemite Valley 78 Oct 8th, 72 Dear Mrs Carr, Here we are again here is your letter Sept 24th. I got down last eve
boy was I not weary? Besides deleted After pushing through the rough upper half of the great Tuolumne Canon; I have climbed
more than twenty four thousand feet in these ten days. Three times to the top of the glacier of Mt Hoff' once to Mt Lyell
McClure I Have bagged a quantity of of Tuolumne rocks sufficient to build a dozen Yosemites. Strips of cascades longer than
ever lacey, or smooth white as pressed snow, it glacier basin with ten glassy lakes set 4 into a compost called, underlined:
a paper for the Boston historical Soc. gave me credit for all of the smaller sayings doings stole the broadest truth to himself.
I have the proof sheets of The Paper will show them to you sometime But all of such meanness can work no permanent evil to
anyone except the stealer. As for the living glaciers of the Sierras here is what I have learned concerning them. You will
have the first chance to steal, for I have just concluded my experiments on them for the season have not yet cast them at
any of the great Profs or Presidents 00625