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To Check The Reckless Ravages Of The Ruthless Denuders Of Our California Forests John Muir And The Other Members Of The Forestry Board Are Now In The Field. Forestry Commissioner Muir On The Work Of Deundation [Sic]. Forces That Are At Work To Lay Waste Our Timber., John Muir Sep 1896

To Check The Reckless Ravages Of The Ruthless Denuders Of Our California Forests John Muir And The Other Members Of The Forestry Board Are Now In The Field. Forestry Commissioner Muir On The Work Of Deundation [Sic]. Forces That Are At Work To Lay Waste Our Timber., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE .EXAMINER. SAN FBANCTSCOs STJ my ,vt MOBNTJr SEPTEMBER 20, 1896. 23 John oaffi fli MOW THE DESTROYERS HAVE WORKED THEll WAY THROUGH THE SANTA CRUZ REDWOODS. forces That Are at Work To Lay Waste Our Timber- jcaused by "sheep men." Incredible numbers of sheep are driven to the mountain pastures every summer, and their course is ever marked by desolation. Every wild garden is trodden idown, the shrubs are stripped of leaves as if devoured by locusts and the woods are burned. Running fires are set everywhere, with a view .of iVi tag -.tlie gTotiiid t.f prostrate tmtiks, tO …

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Letter From A. [F.] Rodgers To John Muir, 1896 Sep 16., A. F. Rodgers Sep 1896

Letter From A. [F.] Rodgers To John Muir, 1896 Sep 16., A. F. Rodgers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Professor John Muir

Honory A.M. of Harvard University

or

My dear Muir

It gave me Sumum pleasure this morning to congratulate you upon the well achieved distinction accorded to you by an Oed & honored institution like Harvard founded in 1638.
The conferring of an Honorary A M. degree by an institution like Harvard is a substantial public recognition of which any recipient may be justly proud.

I am

Very sincerely yours

Aly [F] Rogers

San Francisco

16th Sept.

1896

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Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1896 Sep 2., James D. Mcgilliway Sep 1896

Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1896 Sep 2., James D. Mcgilliway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ESTABLISHED 1860.

ISSUED WEEKLY, 03 A YEAR.

MINNING AND SCIENTIFIC PRESS.

THE OLDEST MINING PAPER ON THE AMERICAN CONTINENT.

J. F. HALLORAN, General Manager.

OFFICE, 220 MARKET STREET. ELEVATOR, 12 FRONT STREET.

ENGINEERING AND MlNING.

[American Newspaper Directory for 1896.]

Among the engineering and mining papers in California, none has credit for so large a regular issue as is accorded to the " Mining and Scientific Press," published weekly at San Francisco. In fact, It fully equals five times the combined Issue accorded to all the others, and the publishers of the American Newspaper Directory will guarantee the accuracy of …

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John Muir Is Here. The Noted Scientist Tells About Inspection Of Forests. What The Special Government Commission Is Doing-It Will Soon Be In Portland., John Muir Jul 1896

John Muir Is Here. The Noted Scientist Tells About Inspection Of Forests. What The Special Government Commission Is Doing-It Will Soon Be In Portland., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

MORNING OREGONIAN, THURSDAY, JULY 23, 189ft JOHN MUIR IS. HERE. THE NOTED SCIENTIST TELLS ABOUT INSPECTION OP FOREST What the Special Government Com mission Is BoinsΓÇöIt Will Soon Be in Portland. Mr. John Muir, the noted scientist, in whose honor the great Muir glacier in Alaska was named, and who jocosely styles himself "Self-appointed Inspector of Gorges, Glaciers and Forests for the Pacific Coast," arrived in Portland yesterday. He has been traveling with the forestry commission, which is now making an inspection of national parks and forest reserves, and left them at Spokane on TSues- day, to visit his home …

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Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jul 15., John Muir Jul 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1896 Jul 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

July 15, 1896

G.A.M.

Dear Louie,

I have just telegraph you to address letters to Spokane, Washington, Write yourself & tell Helen & Wanda to write. If you have sent letters here I will receive them as I will order them forwarded to Spokane our next address for a week or two. We have just come from the famous Yellowstone. The forests & waters hot & cold were in all their glory & we of course enjoyed them unspeakably.
Yesterday was very hot & we spent a horrible night in a sleeping car or choking cars rather today …

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Letter From William R. Thayer To John Muir, 1896 Jun 27., William R. Thayer Jun 1896

Letter From William R. Thayer To John Muir, 1896 Jun 27., William R. Thayer

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

June 27, 1896

My Dear Sir:

It is our custom to print sketches of the recipient of honorary derees each year: and, to ensure accuracy, we ask these gentlemen to furnish the necessary biographical data. I shall be much obliged, therefore, if you will send as soon as possible an account of yourself, covering, among other points (1) date and place of birth; (2) education; (3) profession or occupation; (4) publications; (5) degrees or titles received, etc.

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I take pleasure in mailing to you a copy of the magazine in which the last year's sketches will give you …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens , 1896 May 4., John Muir May 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens , 1896 May 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

As Pres. of S. Club he appoints me on committee

Martinez, May 4, 1896.

My dear Lukens

At the last election of the Sierra Club I was reelected president & I appointed you a member of the Standing Committee on Publications & Communications. I hope you will be able to give some attention to the articles in our bulletings & above all have a good long one of your own on your travels in the Sierra.
We all enjoyed your visit ever so much & hope it will not be long ere You & Your wife make us another visit, …

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Letter From John Muir To [John] Bidwell, 1896 Apr 15., John Muir Apr 1896

Letter From John Muir To [John] Bidwell, 1896 Apr 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


Martinez, April 15 1896

My dear General

When you gave me that grand round Shasta excursion with Hooker & Gray you told me I think in a talk by the campfire that you saw some of the Sequoias in crossing the Sierra in 1846. If so will you give me particulars in writing for publication in the Silva of N. American of Prof Sargent. He is very anxious to get the name of the white man who first looked upon Sequoia gigantia to be preserved in the Silva. Nine of the twelve superb volumes of this work are published I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Apr 3., John Muir Apr 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Apr 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Apr. 3. 1896

My dear Johnson.

The glorious news of the National Academy of Sciences Commission has kept me happy ever since I heard of it. This sure enough is a move direct towards permanent forest management & cannot fail.
I have just written to Senator Perkins to do his best for the $25000 carefully explaining the high character & importance of the Commission etc. & will get a resolution from the Sierra Club as soon as possible.
After I got your letter on the Oregon sheep men I got the Club Directors to pass a a strong …

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Letter From T. Brook White To John Muir, 1896 Apr 2., T. Brook White Apr 1896

Letter From T. Brook White To John Muir, 1896 Apr 2., T. Brook White

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Historian [Mazamas?]

April 2. 1896.

John Muir Esq

President Sierra Club

San Francisco Cal.

Dear Sir

A determined effort is now being made in Congress to restore threefourths of the Cascade Range Forest Reserve to public entry. The entire Oregon delegation headed by Senator Mitchell favors the reopening of the reserve.
The move is being made solely in the interest of the sheep men.
Judge Bellinger of the United States Circuit Court is one of several influential men here who are strongly opposed to any encroachments on the Reserve and he is able personally to reach the President …

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[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir Apr 1896

[Statement From John Muir.], John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

950 THE CENTURY MAGAZINE. level, their opponents work only spasmodically, usually a few weeks before election, and during the remainder of the year dismiss the subject from their minds. It requires great fervor of patriotism to carry on this work, but he must be a very poor American who is willing to admit that there is not enough of saving grace in our people to produce a sufficient body of men to accomplish it. The kind of patriotism required is of the highest order. It must be willing to give time and labor and money, to sacrifice the best that …

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Letter From Jno. T. Mclean To John Muir, 1896 Feb 2., Jno T. Mclean Feb 1896

Letter From Jno. T. Mclean To John Muir, 1896 Feb 2., Jno T. Mclean

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Yosemite

[letterhead]

on the overland train going east near Rawlins Wyoming 7 p.m.

Feby 2nd 1896

Mr. John Muir

Martinez California

My Dear Sir

As you see I am on my way east - bound for Washington expecting to remain East mostly in Washington, though visiting N. York & Boston & then northern cities while away from California I go as a delegate from the Renier & Harbor Improvement Association of Central California (there being five other delegates) to secure as liberal appropriations as possible from Congress for the improvement of the Sacramento & forgiven Rivers & their tributaries, and …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] To John Muir, 1896 Jan 9., Robert Underwood Johnson Jan 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] To John Muir, 1896 Jan 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINES
UNION SQUARE NEW YORK

January 9th, 1896

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

This is the third week of a tussle with a carbuncle.Most of the time I have been confined to my house, though I have not been wholly invalidated for work; but I want you to know that if it had not been for this I should have written to you to wish Mrs. Muir and you the compliments of the season, and to tell you that I am …

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Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island, Edward Field Jan 1896

Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island, Edward Field

Primary Sources

This is a digitized version of Edward Field's Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island: An Historical Account of the Fortifications and Beacons Erected During the American Revolution, with Muster Rolls of the Companies Stationed Along the Shores of Narragansett Bay. It includes the full text of the book along with illustrations and drawings of the various fortifications in the colony during the American War for Independence.

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Charles Lamb., May Brown Jan 1896

Charles Lamb., May Brown

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Biographical sketch of British essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834).

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Letter From W[Illiam] E. Colby To John Muir, [1896?]., William E. Colby Jan 1896

Letter From W[Illiam] E. Colby To John Muir, [1896?]., William E. Colby

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

95?

96

Wednesday a.m.

My dear Mr. Muir:_

We have the enemy on the run, but they are telegraphing here for reinforcements as you see by to-day's papers. The most important hearing of all takes place next Tuesday. I wish it were possible for you to go on.
Anyway a brief note from you to each member of the Public Lands Committee will do worlds of good. Only a line stating that you are sending a pamphlet which contains pertinent information that you rely on them to save the park from destructive invasion etc.
It ought to get off …

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The National Parks And Forest Reservations., John Muir Jan 1896

The National Parks And Forest Reservations., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

268 Publications of the Sierra Club. PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE SIERRA CLUB Held November 23, 1S95. The annual public meeting of the Sierra Club was held in. the hall of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, on the evening of Saturday, November 23, 1895. The topic announced, '' The National Parks and Forest Reservations" had brought together a large audience of members and friends of the Club. Mr. Warren Olney, Vice-President, called the meeting to order, and introduced the President of the evening in the following words: "Ladies and Gentlemen: — It is the good fortune of the …

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Letter From Catharine H. Hittell To John Muir, 1895 Dec 25., Catharine H. Hittell Dec 1895

Letter From Catharine H. Hittell To John Muir, 1895 Dec 25., Catharine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

San Francisco

December 25th 1895

Dear friend Mr. Muir

My love for California's beautiful forests compells me to write to you my fears about the new Committee on Public Lands appointed in the present House of Representatives.
I write to you because I know that you are the best friend of our forests and of the other natural beauties of California. My fear for the forests raises from the fact that speaker Reed of the House has appointed on his Committee on Public Lands Mr. Bowers of Southern California.
Enclosed please find what Mr. Bowers

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2

says in …

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John Muir On Yosemite. The Mountaineer And Writer Says That The Valley Is Wrecked. 'Downtrodden And Desolate.' He Tells What He Saw And Wants The Government To Take Back The Valley., John Muir Nov 1895

John Muir On Yosemite. The Mountaineer And Writer Says That The Valley Is Wrecked. 'Downtrodden And Desolate.' He Tells What He Saw And Wants The Government To Take Back The Valley., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

O CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. JOHN MUIR ON MIT The Mountaineer and Writer Says That the Valley Is Wrecked. "DOWNTKODDEN AND DESOLATE" He Tells What He Saw and Wants the Government to Take Back the ! Valley. The opinions and declarations of John Muir will cat a good deal of a figure in the promised controversy over the ways of the Yosemite Commissioners regarding the valley and the proposition to cede the valley back to the National Government, and Mr. Muir is anxious to start a campaign to carry out that proposition, as well as to secure further protection …

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Letter From A.C. Mcclurg & Co To John Muir, 1895 Nov 12., A.C. Mcclurg & Co. Nov 1895

Letter From A.C. Mcclurg & Co To John Muir, 1895 Nov 12., A.C. Mcclurg & Co.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

A. C. McClurg & Co.

117, 119, and 121 Wabash Avenue.
corner madison street

CHICAGO .November 12...1895•

Mr. John Muir,
C/o Century Company,
New York City, N .Y.

Dear Sir:-

Since the publication of your book "The Mountains of California," we have received inquiries from various sources for titles and prices of your other books, but we regret that we do not find in our regular catalogues any information on the subject. Thinking it possible that you may have published some volumes which are not listed in the regular way, and which are not generally known to the bookselling trade, …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood Johnson], 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir Oct 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood Johnson], 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 1, 1895.

My dear Mr. Johnson,

I had a long talk the other day with the Vice President of our Sierra Club, Mr Olney, the friend of Irish, on Yosemite affairs, & after I had shown him how faithfully & well the Yosemite National Park was managed,--how sheep & destruction had been fenced out, the natural bloom & beauty called back, & how many visitors were now enjoying it; while the Valley itself, naturally the heart & soul of the park, was the only desolate neglected part of it--a frowsy, dirty, dusty, downtrodden, vular mustang pasture, going with …

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Letter From R.A.Fitzgerald To John Muir, 1895 Sep 22., R. A. Fitzgerald Sep 1895

Letter From R.A.Fitzgerald To John Muir, 1895 Sep 22., R. A. Fitzgerald

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep 22 1895

Mr. John Muir

Martinez

My Esteemed Friend,

I have received your very kind favor "The Mountains of California" and prize it very highly. I was not aware when I told you that I would like a copy of your book that it was an edition on the market for sale etc. but thought it was one of your pamphlet essays that was distributed by one of your clubs. However, I now find it to be a very mature and conscientious child of your own mind, placed in the book stalls of the world on its merits …

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Letter From W[Illiam] R[Ussell] Dudley To John Muir, 1895 Jul 8., William Russell Dudley Jul 1895

Letter From W[Illiam] R[Ussell] Dudley To John Muir, 1895 Jul 8., William Russell Dudley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Glenville, Cal.

July 8 1895

Mr. John Muir.

My Dear Sir

Your kind letter and the enclosed articles, your valuable list of publications all came to hand, in good time for my departure southard. I delayed answering and acknowledging your communications until I was on the verge of the forest. We--one assistant and myself, went south to the Tehachapi Mts. and went up Antelope Canon, in to the heart of these mts. to near Tehachapi Pk where we camped at an elevation of 6000# through some weather very hot in the valley below, but very comfortable where we were. …

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The Shahzada's Visit To Great Britain, 1895 : A Selection Of Articles From English Periodical Literature, With Summaries In Persian., The Queen: The Lady's Newspaper & Court Chronicle Jul 1895

The Shahzada's Visit To Great Britain, 1895 : A Selection Of Articles From English Periodical Literature, With Summaries In Persian., The Queen: The Lady's Newspaper & Court Chronicle

Documents and Reports

News coverage of the Afghan prince, Shahzada Nasrullah's visit to Great Britain by the British publications. Photocopies articles accompanied by commentary in Persian, bound in one volume.

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1895 Apr 3 Catherine Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell Apr 1895

1895 Apr 3 Catherine Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

Dear friend Mr. Muir

I suppose Mrs. Myrick has told you how we ladies worked to get the meadowlarks protected by the State Legislature. The Sportsmen’s Convention, which met last April, incorporated into their new game law, a section protecting the larks and it was to urge that that section be make into a law, that we ladies sent petitions signed by fifteen hundred prominent persons, to the legislature. Mr. Brassford of Vacaville, chairman of the Game Committee in the Assembly cut out the clause protecting the larks from the new Game

"[page 2]

Bill, saying at the …

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Letter From Anna Merrill Foster To [Annie L. Muir], 1895 Mar 18., Anna Merrill Foster Mar 1895

Letter From Anna Merrill Foster To [Annie L. Muir], 1895 Mar 18., Anna Merrill Foster

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Marked " Indianapolis letters"] [Evidently Miss Annie Muir is the one here addressed]
Pasadena, March 18, '95.

Dear Miss Muir:

Perhaps you are out here by this time, too. The little Phoebe was growing so thin and weak shut up within the brick walls of Baltimore that I at last consented to accept my father's oft-repeated invitation and go to them in California. Such separations are very hard, and I hope we shall never be compelled to do such a thing again. But Phoebe is thriving here and my father and mother are less lonely. My brother Sam is managing …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 15., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Mar 15., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Private

[letterhead]

March 15 1895

Dear Muir:

Your second article is admirably done, and we will try to get it in during the summer, as soon as we can get the rest of the pictures made. Thanks loud and deep.
You have doubtless seen that poor Tesla has been burned out. His laboratory and all it contained is in ashes--all

01959

[2]

his records notes, plans, historical [instruments?], his great inventions, which are to be described in the April Century by the way. It is a great public calamity. However, he has friends with money and if his health …

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Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Jan 22., Mary Merrill Graydon Jan 1895

Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Jan 22., Mary Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Letter marked “Indianapolis letters”]

288 Central Ave., [Indianapolis]
Jan. 22nd, '95.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I am sure you think all I said about your printing a book was just "talk," seeing I was so long telling you how much I enjoyed it. I am the possessor of two of these books, having read one. I'll just say - one, I purchased, the other was a gift! I insist I enjoy your descriptions more than I would sight - the power to find the vivid word just thrills me, and some sentences I read entranced. I lent one of my …

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Alexander W. Drake Jan 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jan 17., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 17, 1895.

Mrs. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My dear Mrs. Muir,

As I am confined at home by illness, I thought possibly you would pardon this letter by dictation, for I know it will be some time before I am able to write with my own hand, and I want to send you a copy of my Paderewski poem which I promised you, and which you see I have not forgotten. I enclose also a copy of a little poem called "Kensal Green" which is really a dirge that I wrote shortly after I buried my boy in London.I …

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Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Jan 4., Alexander W. Drake Jan 1895

Letter From A[Lexander] W. Drake To John Muir, 1895 Jan 4., Alexander W. Drake

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 4, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, California.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I had hoped to have time write you a personal letter before this, but I have been more than overwhelmed with office and home and social affairs, so that I have scarcely had an evening to myself since my returnts; at last I am forced to resort to a dictated letter* and that in cold typewriting, but you will pardon me, I am sure. I have thought of you often, of my delightful visit at your house, and of the hospitality so kindly extended to me by Mrs. …

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