Letters to a Friend 



to science, at the botanical love-feast held here 

 the other night. He threatens to write up the 

 whole discreditable affair, and is very anxious 

 to obtain from you a copy of that Gray letter 

 to Kellogg which was not delivered. 



I had a glorious ramble in the Santa Cruz 

 woods and have found out one very interesting 

 and picturesque fact concerning the growth of 

 this sequoia. I mean to devote many a long 

 week to its study. What the upshot may be, I 

 cannot guess, but you know I am never sent 

 away empty. I made an excursion to the sum 

 mit of Mt. Hamilton in extraordinary style, 

 accompanied by Allen, Norton, Brawley, and 

 all the lady professors and their friends. A 

 curious contrast to my ordinary still-hunting. 

 Spent a week at San Jose* ; enjoyed my visit 

 with Allen very much. Lectured to the faculty 

 on Methods of Study without undergoing any 

 very great scare. 



I believe I wrote you from Los Angeles about 

 my Pasadena week. Have sent a couple of letters 

 to the " Bulletin" from there, not yet published. 

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