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2 join his family. I have been in Santa Barbara and now am in San Francisco for a week, but return to Los Angeles in two
days. illegible and Lucy leave for Yosemite tomorrow taking The Mountains of California with them, as usual when they go to
the Sierras. I have a book from you--at least so the printed slip in the volume tells me. But I opened to a bare, blank fly
leaf, with no heart-warming inscription upon it in you handwriting. Can this be? I don't see how it is to be let remain so
It is a fair volume, 3 2 well gotten up and illustrated; but that cold and chilling print that tells me (along with
so many other receivers, no doubt) that is is mine, and from the author--no, I don't think I can endure it. Are you well?
Are you working too hard, I wonder? But, still worse, are you melting away into a barbarous and unknown land, almost as distant
in my imagination as another planet? I don't like to think of it. You wish peace to me. I think it is coming to me--by degrees.
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