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6 in those four days we went to Big Meadows Butt Valley, and collected lovely flowers. Took my press and portfolio. Gathering
flowers is very fascinating but the pressing is trying. Dr Gray says I send noble specimens . Is not that encouraging? In
the last lot, sent recently, I have some things which I think precious, but Dr Gray s report will prove. One beauty I found
on our summit . You remember the Summit of the Mountain illegible ad, where we get the grand view of Lassen the chasm beneath
us? General is so interested in the collection of plants that he facilitates my getting them, even when we are in haste, so
we pass some by. (He has found several which delighted him, he was sure they were new , but the report did not so say, he
has to be reconciled. Dr Gray says some of my specimens are rare; , some, bulbs seeds never yet obtained . One had been found
before only by Hart illegible on the Sacramento, probably at Chico . its name is Antirrhinum Coruntum What I ought 1 00810
Rancho Chico Sept 4th 1878 Dear Mr Muir. Last night s mail brought yours to my sister, which we read, as directed, and
will forward tonight. What grand opportunities you are enjoying for studying that which so interests you, and which you have
chosen for you life work. My sympathies are heartily with you, and my prayers too, that God may long spare you to study His
noble works and give the world the benefit of your illegible - ons (though pleasant) labors. Your enthusiasm in your work
is what misleads persons to imagine you are on a grand picnic; to think you ought to settle down , when really you are at
the hardest kind of work, though in the sight underlined: of your own illegible it appears play. One secret of my enthusiastic
sympathy is that you give God the glory due unto his name, and as I said, I do pray daily for you that you may trust in