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letterhead 3 go down into their pockets to help along forest work, and it ought to mean also a good big increase from
Congress next fall. That trip with you and the Doctor, short as it was, is one of the brightest spots in my year. I cannot
help regretting most deeply that we could not have gone on to the American River grove, but if I can get out again this fall,
as I intend to do, perhaps you will need a rest from your writing them. To make a trip with you on foot, with my pack on my
back, has been one of my keenest hopes since the summer of the National Commission. The trip across by Tahoe was most interesting
and instructive, but I did hate to go away leave it - all that splendid broken eternity where a man could go and work get
the wrinkles in his mind smoothed out. I 02606 4 letterhead have to to get into the woods, and sleep? in, some time
this fall, or my writer's work will not amount to anything. And the prospects for useful work are too good to be wasted for
lack of forest made illegible . With many thanks for all you kindess, Very sincerely yours, Gifford Pinchot