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Copy made May 23. 1917 920 Valencia St. San Francisco, March 16th 1880, Dear Mrs Bidwell. Here are a few bits of
botanical odds and ends from Alaska. The little viny twinflowered specimen is the blessed Linnaea that I was telling you about.
The others are mostly heathworts- Ledum, Kalmia, huckleberries, and cranberries, etc. which I will name for you when I get
time to look over them carefully. I want to send you a copy of a paper that Gray read for me at a meeting of the American
Assoc, on mountain-building, but though I have searched diligently in every conceivable corner have failed to find it. My
papers get mixed and scattered on account of having no fixed camp. Here is a copy of an old Overland article, the first of
a series of studies some ten or twelve in all, which is the next best thing I have to offer on the subject, and which I hope
may help to make plain some points too briefly treated in my lecture. As it is my only copy I shall have to beg you to return
it- Keep it half a year or so. I have accomplished hardly anything as yet in the way of writing. my time has been so much
minced and consumed in the visits, and calls, and dinners, of friends I sometimes wish I had remained in the calm wilderness
all winter. Mr Upham is going with his family to Los Angeles, to be gone a month or more. So it is doubtful where I will
settle for the few months before setting out on next seasons work.