Letters to a Friend 



Remember me to the Doctor and to all of 

 your boys. 



I am most cordially, 



Your friend, 



JOHN MUIR. 



La Grange, November 15, 1869. 



DEAR FRIENDS MRS. AND DR. CARR: 



I thank you most heartily for the very kind 

 invitation you send me. I could enjoy a blink 

 of rest in your new home with a relish that only 

 those can know who have suffered solitary ban 

 ishment for so many years, but I must return 

 to the mountains, to Yosemite. I am told that 

 the winter storms there will not be easily borne, 

 but I am bewitched, enchanted, and to-morrow 

 I must start for the great temple to listen to the 

 winter songs and sermons preached and sung 

 only there. 



The plains here are green already and the 

 upper mountains have the pearly whiteness of 

 their first snows. 



Farewell. I will bring you some cones in 

 M 70] 



