Letters to a Friend 



and touch you with these very writing fingers 

 ere long. 



Remember me cordially to Mrs. Moore and 

 Mr. and all your family, and I am as ever 

 Your friend, 



JOHN MUIR. 



Yosemite Valley, 



September 13, 1872. 



Yours of Aug. 23rd is received. Le Conte 

 writes me that Agassiz will not come to the 

 valley. 



I just got down last evening from a fifteen- 

 day ramble in the basins of Illilouette and Po- 

 hono, and start again in an hour for the summit 

 glaciers to see some canons and to examine the 

 stakes I planted in the ice a month ago. 



I would like to come down to see Agassiz, 

 but now is my harvest of rocks and I cannot 

 spare the time. 



I shall work in the outer mountains inces 

 santly until the coming of the snow [rest of 

 letter missing]. 



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