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Ask Elmo to obtain for me the address of the city office of the R.R. which runs from Merced to Yosemite; or send me the name of some officials from whom I can get information upon Yosemite Valley. I would also like to know when the Stockton boats leave Frisco, as we shall take the bot to Stockton and ride from there to the Valley.

Your loving boy,

Fred Jewell Perry

P.S. Thanks for stamps. Send literary part of Sunday's Call.

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Stanford University

May 10, '97.

My dear Mamma:

I did not write Sunday as I expected an answer to my last letter.

I am glad to see that you do not object to my taking the trip. I am so sorry that Papa takes so little interest in my affairs. After working for nine months over a lot of books, after wearying brain and eyes and body in the ceaseless round of study, after all the worry attending each examination he would refuse me such an outing for so small an amount of ex-