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2 blessed little ouzel and the squirrel you immortalized in your book, were hard writing. They sound like the impetuous
outburst of a man? full of love for them. I shall be very glad to call on you when I reach San F.-if I go, as I now fully
3 expect to. and -- as I believe I told you, I expect to reach San F. near the end of March. Thanks for the name of a naturalist
in Phoenix. I shall probably be very glad to hunt him up. I can't give exact dates yet, for I hope to make a few engagements
to illegible in California to help out the exchecquer for we scribblers you know