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to live near sack cloth and ashes for the next six months if I thought I could truly be? illegible looking up at Sentinel
Rock and the South Dome from the meadow's edge beside the river. I shall come there some day. I am sure of that The only question
is - when. But I thank you most cordially for your glorious whole - illegible invitation, and when I do come, I hope to find
the new cabin and its owner in their best estate. I brought six new illegible ic views of the valley last week at a book store
here, and they have to send me now. My Walden is to go to you at once by mail, and if the snow blockade doesn't shut down
again and fates take care of it, as I am sure they will, it will give? you infinite delight. This copy I have read numberless
times and the Rev. Char. G. Ames, of San Jose' in your state, borrowed it of me once, when we both lived in Cincinnati, and
he learned to love Th illegible s form it too. So it has seen service, and now goes to its reward and a final home in the
Yo Semite. I will write a longer letter some day. Do write us often. Just now I am the busiest woman on in margin: the globe
and envy you your calm, secure leisure. I am writing no new illegible articles at present. Shall begin on your illegible in
a few weeks. Very truly, Abby G. W.