Letters to a Friend 



probably get the title of his citrus book through 

 Mr. Williams. Will probably see him next Sun 

 day. 



The Sunday convention manager offered me 

 a hundred dollars for two lectures on the Yo- 

 semite rocks in June. I have not yet agreed to 

 do so, though I probably shall, as I am not 

 going into Colorado this summer. 



Excepting a day at San Jose with Allen, I 

 have hardly been out of my room for weeks, 

 pegging away with my quill and accomplishing 

 little. My last efforts were on the preservation 

 of the Sierra forests, and the wild and trampled 

 conditions of our flora from a bee's point of 

 view. 



I want to spend the greater portion of the 

 season up the Coast, observing ice, and may 

 possibly find my way home in the fall to see 

 my mother. 



I wonder if you will really go quietly away 



South when your office term expires, and rest 



in the afternoon of your life among your kin 



and orange leaves, or, unable to get full abso- 



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