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and had a fine time seeing Victoria and our friends, the Tolmies, 

 and others. Our return home was pleasant, and nothing of im- 

 portance happened, and we were all benefited by our summer in the 

 west. Of course, in all my work at this time, I had the one thing 

 constantly before me — to gather material for the new museum. 



