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You asked me about the relative interest of Yosemite and the Grand
Canyon. It is not easy to compare them, they are so different. In
Yosemite only the magnitudes are unfamiliar; in the Canyon nothing is
familiar--at least, nothing would be familiar to you, though I have
seen something like it on the upper Yellowstone. The "color scheme" is
astounding--almost incredible, as is the "architecture." As to
magnitudes, Yosemite is nowhere. From points on the rim of the Canyon
you can see fifty, maybe a hundred, miles of it. And it is never twice
alike. Nobody can describe it. Of course you must see it sometime. I
wish our Yosemite party could meet there, but probably we never will;
it is a long way from here, and not quite next door to Berkeley and
Carmel.
I've just got settled in my same old tenement house, the Olympia, but
the club is my best address.
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Affectionately,
AMBROSE.
[Washington, D. C.,
November 29, 1910.]