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4 I saw from Glacier Point. and which I have often seen in fancy illegible But my day is coming; and it is a comfort to
know that Yosemite and the Sierras will keep . I enclose a picture which you may not recognize as a good likeness of the toppling
individual who came pitching down behind you, from crag to boulder, on her return from that immortal glimpse of the desolate
Sierras. it underlined: is a good likeness, nevertheless. I long, also, to behold Mt. Shasta. I have a steroscopic? picture
of it; but I shall never attempt such a heroic ascent of his snow-clad slope as you appear to have made. I can understand,
though, that it would be glorious. Perhaps strong minded women do get illegible stormy seas, but that has not been my lot.
To live in eternal and external calm, feeling that Nature had a special care for me, and that I had a special love for her,
has been the happy existence granted me from the beginning. If I see a storm 00734 1 Concord, N.H. Feb. 28. 1876.
My dear Mr. Muir, I was much surprised and pleased on receiving a letter from you; for I had supposed that you were too
busy in studying the grand formations of your beloved Sierras to have time for thinking of puny mortals a whole continents
width off, much more for writing them generous letters. But it seems I was mistaken; and that your good memory will not let
you ignore those who have been permitted to worship, - if only for a few days, - in your sacred temples, with you for attendant
priest. The letter reached me yesterday, and also, its accompanying letters printed at an earlier date. I have read them all
with great interest; for anything in margin: 5 brewing anywhere on the waters, I steer away, before the leaping illegible
become enticing and dangerous; unless I feel that duty calls me to sail in and do battle, when I am ready to stand my chances
in the tempest. But duty seems mostly to dwell in the still, serene places; so I don t ever find myself near the illegible
akers in her service. We, two Woolsons live a very quiet happy life, caring little for the persons about us, though having
many pleasant acquaintances in our immediate world; but living more really in the world of books, newspaper, and the letters
of absent and beloved friends. I go to Boston often; and breathe mental ozone while there. I work less in Reforms than I did,
- though as strong minded and radical as ever, - because I have seen that no reforms are so good 00734