Letters to a Friend 



valley. I have a great deal to say to you which 

 I will not try to write. Remember me most cor 

 dially to the Doctor and to Allie and all the 

 boys. I am much obliged to you for those bo 

 tanical notes, etc., and I am ever most 

 Cordially yours, 



JOHN MUIR. 



Here is a moss with a globular capsule and a 

 squinted, cowl-shaped calyptra. Do you know 

 it? 



Yosemite, May lyth, 1870. 



Our valley is just gushing, throbbing full of 

 open, absorbable beauty, and I feel that I must 

 tell you about it. I am lonely among my en 

 joyments; the valley is full of visitors, but I 

 have no one to talk to. 



The season that is with us now is about what 

 corresponds to full-fledged spring in Wisconsin. 

 The oaks are in full leaf and have shoots long 

 enough to bend over and move in the wind. 

 The good old bracken is waist-high already, 

 and almost all the rock ferns have their outer- 

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