Letters to a Friend 



Tahoe City, 

 November 3rd, [1873.] 



MY DEAR FRIENDS DR. AND MRS. CARR, 

 I received the news of your terrible bereave 

 ment a few moments ago, and can only say 

 that you have my heart sympathy and prayer 

 that our Father may sustain and soothe you. 



Dr. Kellogg and Billy Simms left me a week 

 ago at Mono, going directly to Yosemite. I 

 reached this queen of lakes, two days ago and 

 rode down around the shore on the east side. 

 Will continue on around up the west coast home 

 ward through Lake and Hope valleys and over 

 the Sierra to Yosemite by the Virginia Creek 

 trail, or Sonora road if much snow should fall. 

 Will reach Yosemite in about a week. 



Somehow I had no hopes of meeting you 

 here. I could not hear you or see you, yet you 

 shared all of my highest pleasures, as I saun 

 tered through the piney woods, pausing count 

 less times to absorb the blue glimpses of the 

 lake, all so heavenly clean, so terrestrial yet so 

 openly spiritual. I wish, my dear, dear friends, 

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