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Denver. Apr. 24 1863. My Dear Wife: I have just come down from the Mountains of which I have no time to write you now, except that I am so delighted that you would think I had found a gold mine. Whether you ever come here to live or not, you will have to come to see these hills- for no one is fully prepared to leave this world until they have seen its sublimities. I enclose you a little flower which I picked out of the snow on the top of one of the lower ranges- but still some 20,000 feet nearer heaven than you are. I can only write this much as it is mail time, and no more for two days As ever. Simeon Whiteley