Dear Lora,
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You asked me about the relative interest of Yosemite and the Grand Cañon. It is not easy to compare them, they are so different. In Yosemite only the magnitudes are unfamiliar; in the Cañon 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 Cañon 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.
Dear Lora,
Thank you very much for the work that you are doing for me in photography and china. I know it is great work. But take your time about it.