Letters to a Friend 



Sanderson and Mrs. Waterston. Mrs. Water- 

 ston left the valley before your letter reached 

 me, but one morning about sunrise an old lady 

 came to the mill and asked me if I was the man 

 who was so fond of flowers, and we had a very 

 earnest, unceremonious chat about the valley 

 and about "the beyond/' She is made of better 

 stuff than most of the people of that heathen 

 town of Boston, and so also is Shapleigh. 



Mrs. Yelverton is here and is going to stop 

 a good while. Mrs. Waterston told her to find 

 me, and we are pretty well acquainted now. 

 She told me the other day she was going to 

 write a Yosemite novel and that Squirrel and 

 I were going into it. I was glad to find that she 

 knew you. I have not seen Prof. Le Conte. 

 Perhaps he is stopping at one of the other 

 hotels. 



Has Mrs. Rapley or Mr. Colby told you 

 about our camping in the spruce woods on the 

 south rim of the valley and of our walk at day 

 break to the top of the Sentinel Dome to see 

 the sun rise out of the crown peaks of beyond ? 

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