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Yosemite Valley Apr 13th 1873 Dear Mrs Carr, Indian Tom goes out the valley tomorrow, with this I send you Hetch Hetchy
Last year I wrote a description of H Hetchy sent it to Prof Runkle Not having heard of it since I thought it lost in some
waste basket, but today I received a Boston letter stating that a Hetch H from my pen appeared in the Boston Transcript of
about March 12, 73 wh may possibly be the article in question. If so this present H H will be found to contain a page or two
of the same, but this is about three times as large, all rewritten etc. That Tuolumne song of fine Cantos ( Nature loves the
in margin: ( fire number may perhaps be better out. If