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1 1871 Yosemite Dec 11th Dear Mrs Carr, We are snowbound your letter of Nov' 1st came two days ago. I sympathize with you
for the loss of your brown Japanese, but I am glad to know that you found so much of pure human goodness in the life of your
scholar, the whole world is enriched, beautified by a stratum - an atmosphere of God like souls, it is ignorance alone that
banks human love into narrow gutter chan- nels stagnant pools making it selfish impure when it should be boundless as air
light blending with all the? world, keeping sight of our impartial Father wh o? illegible - blackened out sun of all the love
that is rayed down to earth illegible - blackened out glaciers Dear friend, ice is only another form of terrestrial love,
I am astonished to hear you speak so unbelievingly of Gods glorious crystal glacier They are only pests, you think them wrong
in temperature, they lived in horrible times you dont care to hear about them only that they made in- struments of Yosemite
music You speak heresy for once, deserve a dip in Methodist Tophet, or Vesuvius at least I have just been sending ice to Le
Conte, snow to Mc- Chesney, I have nothing left but hailstones for you, but I dont know how to send them to speak them, you
confuse me You have taught me here encouraged me to read the mountains now you will not listen, next summer you will be converted.
You will be iced then. - I have been up Nevada to the top of Lyell found a living glacier, but you don't want that I have
been in Hetch Hetchy the canon above I was going to tell