[1872.]
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Farewell. I’m glad you are to get your Ned again. The fever will soon
cool out from his veins in the breath of California.
The valley is full of sun, but glorious Sierras are piled above the South
Dome and Starr King. I mean the bossy cumuli that are daily upheaved at
this season, making a cloud period yet grander than the rock-sculpturing,
Yosemite-making, forest-planting glacial period.
Yesterday we had our first midday shower. The pines waved gloriously
at its approach, the woodpeckers beat about as if alarmed, but the
hummingbird moths thought the cloud shadows belonged to evening and came
down to eat among the mints. All the fire and rocks of Starr King were
bathily dripped before.
[1872.]
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they will go on Monoward for Tahoe. I mean to set some stakes in a dozen
glaciers and gather some arithmetic for clothing my thoughts.
I hope you will not allow old H. or his picture agent, Houseworth, to
so gobble and bewool poor Agassiz that I will not see him.
Remember me always to the Doctor and the boys and to Mrs. Moore, and I
am ever yours,