Letters to a Friend 



yond measure though you come as a comet 

 tailed with a whole misty town. 



Ned is a brave fellow. God bless him un 

 speakably and feed him with his own South 

 American self. 



I shall be most happy to know your Doggetts 

 or anything that you call dear. 



Good-night and love to all. 



I have not seen any of my " Tribune" letters, 

 though I have written five or six. Send copy if 



you can. 



J. Mum. 



[1872.] 



[Beginning of letter missing.] 

 Farewell. I 'm glad you are to get your Ned 

 again. The fever will soon cool out from his 

 veins in the breath of California. 



The valley is full of sun, but glorious Sierras 

 are piled above the South Dome and Starr 

 King. I mean the bossy cumuli that are daily 

 upheaved at this season, making a cloud period 

 yet grander than the rock-sculpturing, Yosem- 

 ite-making, forest-planting glacial period, 

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