Letters to a Friend 



abundance, though even Yosemite glaciers 

 might melt in the warmth of her laughter and 

 sunshine. She handles glacier periods like an 

 Agassiz and has discovered a Hetch Hetchy 

 period that is her own. Don't you believe all 

 she tells you about the walk and the dark and 

 the dust of Indian Canon. 



I want to get Doggett's address. 



I will begin my long mountain excursion 

 soon, for the snow is mostly gone from the high 

 meadows. 



I have been guiding a few parties and will 

 take a few more if they are of the right kind, 

 but I want my mind kept free and sensitive to 

 all influences excepting human business. 



I need a talk with you more than ever before. 

 Mrs. Hutchings is always kind to me, and the 

 clearness of her views on all spiritual things is 

 very extraordinary. She appreciates your friend 

 ship very keenly, and I am glad to think you 

 will soon know each other better. Her little 

 Casie (Gertrude) is as pure a piece of sunbeam 

 as ever was condensed to human form. 

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