Letters to a Friend 



memory of that which is laid upon Twenty 

 Hills. 



Also I will send you some thoughts that I 

 happened to get for poor persecuted, twice- 

 damned Coyote. If you think anybody will 

 believe them, have them published. Last mail 

 I sent you some manuscript about bears and 

 storms, which you will believe if no one else will. 

 An account of my preliminary rambles among 

 the glacier beds was published in the "Daily 

 Tribune" of New York, Dec. 9th. Have you 

 seen it ? If you have, call old Mr. Stebbins's 

 attention to it. He will read with pleasure. 

 Where is the old friend ? I have not heard from 

 him for a long time. Remember me to the Doc 

 tor and the boys and all my old friends. 



Yours, etc., 



JOHN MUIR. 



New Sentinel Hotel, 

 Yosemite Valley, April 23, 1872. 



Yours of Apr. 9th and isth containing Ned's 

 canoe and colonization adventure came to 

 night. I feel that you are coming and I will not 

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