Letters to a Friend 



not be likely to see Yosemite again before Jan 

 uary, when I shall have a grand journey over 

 the snow. 



Mrs. Yelverton told me before I started upon 

 my river explorations that she would likely be 

 in Oakland in two weeks, and so I made up a 

 package for you of lily bulbs, cones, ferns, etc., 

 but she wrote me a few days ago that she was 

 still in the valley. 



I find that a portion of my specimens col 

 lected in the last two years and left at this place 

 and Hopeton are not very well cared for, and 

 I have concluded to send them to you. 



I will ship them in a few days by express, and 

 I will be down myself perhaps in about a year. 

 If there is anything in these specimens that the 

 Doctor can make use of in his lectures, tell him 

 to do so freely, of course. 



The purple of these plains and of this whole 

 round sky is very impressively glorious after a 

 year in the deep rocks. People all throughout 

 this section are beginning to hear of Dr. Carr. 

 He accomplishes a wonderful amount of work. 

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