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3 I usually answer all home letters as soon as they come to hand because they are so very numerous I am unable to remember
whether or no they receive a reply ere they are laid away. How delightful it is to think of you Joanna so near, , lovers of
Nature as you both so keenly are, in so wild so beautiful a region. I only wish that I could see you both every day give you
the benefit or the burden of one of my long talks. You know that though far from fluent I always was an inveterate speaker,
I grow worse worse as I grow 4 older. It must be hard for Maggie in her poor health to begin home making afresh so far
from Sarah mother all of you save Dan. Still she will I devoutly hope become accustomed to the change without much suffering.
Away away you all we all are flying like winged seeds, taking root far apart. Heaven bless us all keep us close together in
eternal family love. With Lou s kindest regard I am every cordially lovingly your brother John Muir Remember me to Mr
Hand to Mr Brown I look forward with great pleasure to the time in margin: when I shall make their acquaintance.