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most happy to see you help you to see Yosemite. You will require no photograph to know me, the most suntanned round shoulder-
ed bashful man of the crowd (if you catch me in a crowd), that's me. I will be here for some years, as last fall I began a
careful study of the ancient glacier system of this portion of the Sierra for the Boston Academy of Science A sort of preliminary
survey of the Glacial basin of Yosemite Creek was published in the New York Tribune of Dec 9th (Daily) wh will give you some
idea of the manner in wh my life is spent. Some winter letters of mine may also appear in the Tribune as soon as the snow
blockade is broken. Last Dec' we had a glorious jubilee of waterfalls, of wh I wrote an account, It will probably appear
in next months Overland If it does I hope you will see it. How gladly I would welcome Mrs Pelton here wee Fannie who would
have been more than half a woman ere this. I would like to see you all. How fast those yrs have flown. How you must laugh
at the memories of my odd appearance, among you all. I remember rebuking you Mr Lovewell without mercy for silly chat, old
Mr Newton too for irreveren ce all of you for sins of some kind or other, something else I remember Emily - Your Kind words
to me the first day I sw you Kind words are likely to live in any human soil, but planted in the breast of a Scotchman they
are