Description of American travels; the best thing that he has seen are the pine forests and the majestic Sequoias. Wry comments on Americans. A splendid country to travel in, but a poor country to live in. Discusses weather conditions.
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Description of American travels; the best thing that he has seen are the pine forests and the majestic Sequoias. Wry comments on Americans. A splendid country to travel in, but a poor country to live in. Discusses weather conditions.
Instructs Annie how to complete ARW's tax return in his absence. ARW also chastises Annie for not dating her previous two letters to him and states that their daughter has picked up this bad habit, but their son Willie, "shows the hereditary business instinct of the male animal by duly dating"! ARW bemoans the US government postal weight restrictions affecting his posting of plants back to England. ARW concludes his letter by stating how miserable California is and that "nowhere in America yet have I seen a place I should like to live in".
The weather and the seasons and that ARW has not seen a single place he should like to live in. He writes of "Big Trees" including Redwoods and tells of his plans to visit Santa Cruz and Lake Tahoe before coming home in late August. ARW also mentions that he has been lecturing on Spiritualism in San Francisco.