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I have excellent photos, which explain better than 

 writing ; and I will be able to tell you all about their 

 religion, which is nothing but distorted Christianity. 

 They have immense power here, but the Yanks are 

 gradually getting the mastery over them. They really 

 would be a source of great trouble in a weak-kneed 

 country like England, but over this side of the water 

 they stand no nonsense. It is pretty hot, between 80 

 and 90, but I fancy we shall have it a real terror after 

 Denver. We leave to-morrow at 10.30, and should 

 arrive at Colorado Springs at 4.30 P.M. Saturday. I 

 am 900 miles nearer you than when I last wrote." 



"COLORADO SPRINGS, Tuesday > i$th July. 

 I can, and did, fancy your joy in getting my wire 

 to say we were coming by the boat of the 3Oth inst. 

 The heat coming from Salt Lake City was so terrible 

 115 degrees in sun, and 93 to 102 degrees in the 

 railway that I decided at once to run no risks of the 

 exhausting effects of such heat and to bolt home. 

 Accordingly I wired all over the place, and have 

 written to Butler to come to Chicago (as I have given 

 up Whitehouse), where I shall be from the 2ist to the 

 25th. Since that a cool wave has come, and it is now 

 under 80 degrees, but I won't trust it ! I am very fit 

 and wish to stay so, and am literally longing to get 

 back to you. We have had a glorious trip, and I will 

 have an immensity to tell you of ; but, to tell the truth, 

 I have had enough of it, and shall be very glad to get 

 back to British soil. Nothing could exceed the kind- 

 ness we have met with everywhere, but after all said 

 and done, one is more at home in the 'old country,' 

 and the social comfort and civilisation of this marvel- 

 lous land laissent a dtsirer. We are resting here and 

 enjoying it all very much, and go to Denver on i/th, 



