letterhead Nov 24 1898 Dear Wanda Helen I arrived here yesterday at 4 o clock in the morning very chilly frosty - a
strange state of weather after so much muggy sticky heat. This is a cool bright sunny day I spent yesterday with Dr Mohr -
a good botanist good man driving down the bay through a grand forest of Magnolia liquid amber some of each a 100 feet high
3 or 4 ft in diameter. Just think of magnolias this size I start for New Orleans this afternoon may take the evening train
for California, or I may 02509