spend a day at New Orleans with a botanist to see some of the great trees there. Anyhow I feel that I am fairly on the way
home am glad. I expect Dr Mohr every minute for another ride into the woods so this letter must be a short one probably the
last Ill write I hope to hear from you today by letters forwarded from Jacksonville. Goodbye darlings Ill soon be home the
frost has killed all the fever there will be no quarantine trouble at New Orleans Love to Mamma Maggie Ever your affectionate
father John Muir