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near to nature as men dare immitate God'S handiwork, they now refuse, many a day, to sign the name beneath my typewriting.
- I have a dear wish. I see by the papers that you are to be in Berkeley on Arborday. You know where Mr. Keeler lives. We
are in the block next to him. Make a little circuit, and let me, once, see you face to face and let the warmth of your hand
s touch stroke the face of the child that God gave me to raise me when I was about to fall . I am unfortunate in always seeing
the shortcomings of others. Perhaps that is no more a mere difference in opinion, and that my self-opinion illegible tedness
prevents me from appreciating fully the efforts of others. I allude to the memorial for Joe LeCente, to be erected by our
Sierra club. Memorial . It seems to me that the people cannot get over the idea of combining something churchy with the thought
of memorial . The design looks to me like a chapel. Just think of the idea of men, men, the conceited men, attempting to erect
a chapel inside of God s grand church that he built with such master stroke in the Yosemite. It would sound to me like a goat-bell
around the neck of the queencow of the choicest band of stock. Is not in the smile of a face as much of prayer as in the long
drawn mistery of a sister of mercy? If you cannot agree with me, you, surely, will sympethise with me in my sensitiveness.
I know you will be glad to know that the first piece of work has come to me after six months idleness. I have to be carried
into the carriage, but I can get there and do what is required of me. I am to design a tract into choice residence lots for
the Oakland Realty Syndicate. They promised me this four years age, and they stick to me inspite of debility (in my nether
parts). I shall start the work at New Years, when their contour survey is done. Mother will have flour, and the boy shall
have jelly right along, and the salt I can gain when I burry my face in the pillow where once the most noble hope rose to
God s throne when the dreams of the night set in. With a blessing Thanksgiving for your Home illegible