1419 Taylor St May 4th 1875 Dear Mrs Carr - Here I am safe in the arms of Daddy S illegible ett home again from Icy Shasta
richer than ever in dead river gravel in snow storms snow. The upper end of the main Sacramento Valley is entirely covered
with ancient river drift I wandered over many square miles of it. In every peeblec I could hear the sounds of running water.
The whole deposit is a poem whose many books chapters form the geological Vedas of our glorious state I discovered a new species
of hail on the summit of Shasta experienced one of the most beautiful most violent snow storms imaginable.