Letters to a Friend 



General's military clock, and I am pretty sure 

 that he saw just about nothing. 



I am glad that the world does not miss me 

 and that all of my days with the Lord and his 

 works are uncounted and unmeasured. I found 

 the guide who was with you. He said that you 

 wished me to gather some cones for you. I 

 hope to see you soon in San Francisco and will 

 fetch you specimens of those which grow higher 

 than you have been. I am sorry that you were 

 so short a time in the valley, but you will go 

 again and remain a month or two. I would like 

 to spend a winter there to see the storms. We 

 spent most of the summer on the south fork of 

 the Tuolumne near Castle and Cathedral peaks, 

 and oh, how unspeakable the glories of these 

 higher mountains. You have not yet caught a 

 glimpse of the Sierra Nevadas. You must go 

 to Mono by the Bloody Canon pass. I will not 

 try to write the grandeur I have seen all sum 

 mer but I will copy you the notes of one day 

 from my journal. 



"Sept. 2nd. Amount of cloudiness .08. Sky 

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