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La Grange Nov 15 69 Dear friend Mrs Mr Carr I thank you most heartly for the very kind invitation you send me. I could
enjoy a blink of rest in your new home with a relish that only those can know who have suffered solitary banishment for so
many years but I must return to the mountains - to Yo Semite I am told that the winter storms there will not be easily borne
but I am bewitched-enchanted tomorrow I must start for the great tem- ple to listen to the winter songs sermons preached sung
only there The plains here are green already the upper Mtn's have the pearly whiteness of their first snows