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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Nov 29., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Nov 29., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION SCUARE NEW-YORK
November 29,1899.

R.W.GILDER,EDITOR.
R.U.JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

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

We are delighted to hear that your pen is beginning to work.
I have not only seen Burroughs,but the Thompsons,and am glad to hear that you are in fine condition for either tramping or literary labor.You have in you the making of many books, but old Time with his scythe is after us all, so do not lose any time at your desk, and particularly bear in mind that "Autobiography of a Naturalist."
Mr.Scott, …

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Letter From A.W. Combs To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1899 Nov 24, A. W. Combs Nov 1899

Letter From A.W. Combs To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1899 Nov 24, A. W. Combs

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oakland Nov. 24, 1899 Mrs. J. Muir Dear Madam As it is so rainy I concluded that you would not want to do anything towards the removal untill the weather cleared up a little. So did not go up today as I agreed I have shiped the marble Slabs and also the cement so if it is clear I will be up Tuesday if satisfactory to you. In the morning on the 1st train. Hoping that this will prove satisfactory to you I remain Yours Truly A.W. Combs

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1899 Nov 22., Frank H. Scott Nov 1899

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1899 Nov 22., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

:THE:CENTURY:co:
:publishers:
33:East:17th:St:(UNION SQUARE)
:NEW-YORK.N Y:

Frank H.Scott,Prest.
Chas.F.Chichester.Treas.
William W.Ellsworth,Secretary.

November 22, 1899.

John Muir,Esq.,
Martinez, California.

My dear Mr.Muir:-

Mr.Johnson has just handed me your letter of November 16th., enclosing one from President Jordan, which I herewith return.
You will,perhaps,remember that this matter came up about a year ago when they requested permission to reprint in this book not only "The Water Ouzel," but also "An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier."After considering the matter, we wrote to President Jordan and to the publishers,D. C. Heath & Co.,expressing our regrets that in the best interests of the …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Nov 16., John Muir Nov 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Nov 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: A[illegible] F.H.S.]

Martinez, Cal Nov. 16, 1899.

My dear Johnson

I enclose a note from Dr Jordan, to which I replied that he was welcome to the part of the story referred to as far as I was concerned, but how much the Century Co, the owners of the copyright would grant I didn't know.
Thanks for your suggestion about the story book. If I could write dog fish crow Mormon & Aurora stories in a "never failing never freezing stream" as fast as your Editors call for them no doubt Id soon have a book a …

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Letter From John Muir To [David Starr] Jordan, 1899 Nov 16., John Muir Nov 1899

Letter From John Muir To [David Starr] Jordan, 1899 Nov 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 16, 1899

[marginalia]

Prof. Jordan

Stanford University

Dear Sir

As far as I am concerned you are welcome to the part of my Ouzel story in the enclosed manuscript for your bird & beast book. Whether the Century Co, the owners of the copyright, will allow so much I don't know.

Cordially Yours

John Muir

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Letter From David Jordan To John Muir, 1899 Nov 14., David Jordan Nov 1899

Letter From David Jordan To John Muir, 1899 Nov 14., David Jordan

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Stanford University, Cal.,11/14/99.

Mr.John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir:

I send you herewith manuscript covering about two-thirds of your story of the Water Ouzel. D, C. Heath & Co. would be glad to have it for their book of true tales of birds and beasts,edited by myself and designed as collateral reading in schools.As much of this as you and your publisher are willing to spare will be gratefully received.If you will go over the manuscript and cut out whatever is necessary, we shall be under obligation to you for the rest. …

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Letter From John Muir To [R. W.] Gilder, 1899 Nov 14., John Muir Nov 1899

Letter From John Muir To [R. W.] Gilder, 1899 Nov 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Nov. 14/99

My dear Mr Gilder

Thanks for the rime of the Ancient ice farmer. It is very funny but you could & should write something better in dead glacial earnest.
I have not yet began the recollection job. Am busy with forests.
I have just received a letter from Johnson proposing a little story book I'd like to try.
The Four brook visit still shines in mind.
Remember me to Mrs Gilder & the children

Ever Cordially Yours

John Muir

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Nov 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Nov 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Nov 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 13, 1899.

My dear Muir:

I am glad to hear that you will be with us in the spring. We ought to meet about the 1st of March and St. Louis will be a good meeting place. This ought to be a most interesting trip, and if you will only stick by me you will have an opportunity to see the eastern spring appear all the way from Texas to Massachusetts.
No, Canby was not with me on this trip: he was detained at home by various business complications, so I had …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Nov 9., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1899

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1899 Nov 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

s. & c.

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY- MAGAZINE
UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK

November 9, 1899

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.U.JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

I was very much delighted to get your letter of the 8th of October and to know that the Harriman expedition was enlivened with so much cheerful verse.
We think of calling Burroughs's articles,"Burroughsing [illegible] Muir in tho Glacial Northwest." If they should call for a reply from you, it could be entitled "Muiring it wfth Burroughs"!
It is good news to our firm that you are going to …

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Letter From Charles A. Keeler To John Muir, 1899 Nov 8., Charles A. Keeler Nov 1899

Letter From Charles A. Keeler To John Muir, 1899 Nov 8., Charles A. Keeler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Ridge Road and Highland Place

Berkeley, Cal.

November 8th 1899.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I fear you will think I am very thoughtless and ungrateful to have delayed so long in replying to your letter, which was so hearty and hospitable that it did me much good. Every day since I have had you on my mind and have wanted to reply, but each day's work has been so pressing that letter writing has seems quite impossible. I have been seeing my two books through the press simultaneously, and straining

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I trust she has decided to do …

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Letter From John Muir To [David Starr] Jordan, 1899 Nov 2., John Muir Nov 1899

Letter From John Muir To [David Starr] Jordan, 1899 Nov 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov 2, 1899

Dear Prof Jordan

I would gladly give you an animal story for your book if I could but I have none unpublished the dog story has not yet gone into a book & therefore the Century co. would be naturally unwilling to part with it. but I think you might get at least part of the Ousel such as have appeared in several school readers
Im glad you are making a book on animals. Such books are greatly needed.

With best wishes

I am Cordially Yours

John Muir

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Letter From R[Ichard] W[Atson] Gilder To John Muir, 1899 Nov 2., Richard Watson Gilder Nov 1899

Letter From R[Ichard] W[Atson] Gilder To John Muir, 1899 Nov 2., Richard Watson Gilder

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible]

Tell you the news Prom Pour Brooks Parm? Well,
But there is news to tell!
As long as my arm.
"What, a new she-calf born To this world forlorn?"Few things are finer Than a fine heifer-calf,And most things are minor;.But it 's better by half -The news that I speak of;Besides now we reek of Such farm news as this:You were here, when, what bliss!Alpha dropped on our planet,And we all ran to scan it.How it staggered and swayed,Groped, puckered, sucked, prayed On its knees, or it seemed so;But its mother never dreamed so,For there! what fun! Wisht!
How …

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Workaday World, November 1899, University Of The Pacific Nov 1899

Workaday World, November 1899, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Dorothea [Draper Et Al.] To John Muir, 1899 Oct 28., Dorothea Draper Oct 1899

Letter From Dorothea [Draper Et Al.] To John Muir, 1899 Oct 28., Dorothea Draper

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Arden

Orange County

New York

October 28t 1899

Dear Mr. Muir

The reason that the G.Q. have not answered your letter was that we hesitated to attempt to cope with your overflowing poetical genious, and felt that we [would?] all wait until we assembled and put our wits together to reply.
A handwriting

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[sharp?] would revel in the incongruity of the styles but we hardly dare to hope that such a well-rounded, published and glaciated poet will take the same delight, now you are in for it, & will have to read with patience this lenghty document. …

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Letter From John Muir To [William E.] Ritter, 1899 Oct 20., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To [William E.] Ritter, 1899 Oct 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 20. 1899

My dear Prof Ritter

Come when you can, anytime & let us talk over our grand novel raid unto the fine fruitful northern wilderness. Keeler, Cap. Doran, Merriam Gannett & Gilbert have been here & now of course you must come. I have heard by letters from Burroughs Ridgeway & the Big Four girls. The east members of the party had a meeting & dinner on Dewy Day in N.Y. Let me know when you are coming & I'll meet you at the station.
With kind regards & happy recollections

I am very truly yours

John …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Oct 20., Charles Sprague Sargent Oct 1899

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Oct 20., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain,Mass,....October...20.,......1899.

My dear Muir:

I am back after an unsatisfactory journey and I am glad you did not undertake to go with me, for although I saw some magnificently colored foliage at Nashville and Ashville the journey, on the whole, was very unsatisfactory because wherever I have been there had been very severe frosts following a season of unprecedented drought, so really the botany did not amount to very much.I shall have to go over a good deal of the same ground and more of it in the early spring and that will be the …

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Letter From C[Harles] E. Allen To John Muir, 1899 Oct 14., Charles E. Allen Oct 1899

Letter From C[Harles] E. Allen To John Muir, 1899 Oct 14., Charles E. Allen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF,CHARLES E.ALLEN,'99.

BUSINESS MANAGER,WILLIAM S.KIES,'99.

The Wisconsin Alumni Magazine

PUBLICATION COMMITTEE.
DAVID B. FRANKENBURGER,'69, Chairman.
E. RAY STEVENS,'93,Treasurer.
GEORGE RAYMER,'71.
CHARLES R_ VAN HISE,'79.
ERNEST N.WARNER,'89.

PUBLISHED BY THE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OF THE
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN.

Madison,Wis.,Oct.14,1899.

Mr.John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

Dear sir:

We would like to publish in the Wisconsin Alumni Magazine a photograph of yourself accompanied by a short biographical sketch,and if you do not object will be very glad to have you send a photograph together with such facts as would be useful, or perhaps a reference to some magazine articles which wouild contain tham.The only article …

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Letter From W[Illia]M E. Ritter To John Muir, 1899 Oct 12., William E. Ritter Oct 1899

Letter From W[Illia]M E. Ritter To John Muir, 1899 Oct 12., William E. Ritter

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Berkeley, Cal.

2434 Durant Ave.

Oct. 12, 1899.

My dear Mr. Muir -

Your invitation to me to visit you on Saturday of this week tests my power to resist temptation almost to the last notch. But I shall come off victor - for it is impossible to come off anything else. However I have no hope for "victory on to victory" if like temptations assail me in the future. Too much grind now but try me again some time!

Our totem

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poles will be here from Portland before long, then you will want me come down and see …

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Letter From John Muir To Miss [Dorothea] Draper, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To Miss [Dorothea] Draper, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California, Oct 8, 1899

My dear Miss Draper,

I was very glad to recieve the round [volume?] letter of your Big 4 written in Arizona on your way east. I wrote in reply a month ago to Mary & Cornelia thinking they would pass it on to you & Betty Averill But Betty writes me she has not seen it yet & I suppose you have not - through you must soon. Since I got home I have had quite a number of visits from members of the H.A.E. Captain Doran & his wife & niece. Henry Gannett, Prof …

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Letter From John Muir To [William E.] Ritter, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To [William E.] Ritter, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 8. 1899

My dear Prof Ritter

I received the dollars you sent the other day tho I had no notion you owed me anything but a visit when you were tired with your professional work.
Dr. Merriam is coming up tomorrow Cant you come next Saturday? The Alaska Glaciers no doubt are all right notwithstanding the kind trotting on Natures knee they have been enjoying lately Glaciers know how to take earthquakes men dont.

Come up when you can

Ever Yours Truly

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 8, 1899

My dear Johnson--

Your letter of Sep. 21 came just a few days before Mr & Mrs Thompson & I enjoyed their visit very much because they have seen something. I still regret your not being on the Harriman trip. It was in every way just the thing for you-more so than for anyone on board. Still I'm glad you passed safely through the hot killing days of N. Y. with your family on Long Island.
I am pegging away at the park & forest Reservations which I hope to get off my hands before the …

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Letter From John Muir To Charlie [A. Keeler], 1899 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To Charlie [A. Keeler], 1899 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 8. 1899

My dear Charlie -

If you dont want to build a shanty of your own on an acre, just move into the adobe over by the Orange Grove. Or if lonesome there just come over to the house We will be glad to have you anywhere or anyway.
Mrs Knapp proposes to publish a lot of mixed bungled stuff derived from her visit here with you. I think her publishing what she heard from me in the unguarded freedom of my home is an outrage - Yell this into her ear the next time you see …

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Letter From John Muir To Mary [Muir Hand], 1899 Oct 1., John Muir Oct 1899

Letter From John Muir To Mary [Muir Hand], 1899 Oct 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 1, 1899.

My dear Sister Mary

We were glad to hear from you over more to learn that you & your family are well. Louis has been quite poorly for a long time but it now better all the rest of us are about as usual Maggie is better this year than she has been for many years & is [reviving?] her youth almost in the smiles of her new grandchild. Mays dignified happiness is grand. David is very busy shipping grapes making money & prospering generally. Im pegging away at a new book about forests etc.
Had …

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Workaday World, October 1899, University Of The Pacific Oct 1899

Workaday World, October 1899, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Charles Keeler To John Muir, 1899 Sep 26., Charles Keeler Sep 1899

Letter From Charles Keeler To John Muir, 1899 Sep 26., Charles Keeler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]

book I should certainly go the first of October. As it is we must remain here until the books are out, trusting to get a change later. We have hoped for word from Wanda telling us when she is to make her promised visit. We often speak of the delightful time we had with you, and Miss Knapp fairly beams whenever she refers to it. I enclose two or three photographs for Mrs. Muir, and will send her some more later.
With kindest regards to you and yours from all three of us,

Sincerely your friend

Charles Keeler

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Letter From Francis George To John Muir, September 25, 1899, Francis George Sep 1899

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, September 25, 1899, Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Sept 25th 99 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir, Enclose please find Ck. No 32 for Two Hundred & twenty eight 25/100 Dollars to be credited as follows. For rent on lot 1 BH to Sept 1 12.00 for rent on lot 2 BH to Oct 1 9- for ground rent lot 3 BJ to Oct 1 20 for interest of P. Guerrierri 16 on lot B22 to J.E. Petersen 20.00 on lot 3 B13 to Ed Larsen 15.00 on lot 6 B13 to J.O. Schausten 85.00 on lot 8 B20 to M[?] Urbick 15.00 on lot 7B20 to F. …

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Letter From W[Illiam] E. Ritter To John Muir, 1899 Sep 25., William E. Ritter Sep 1899

Letter From W[Illiam] E. Ritter To John Muir, 1899 Sep 25., William E. Ritter

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sept. 25, 1899.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I generally pay my honest debts sometime. Despite the questioning which you may have had as to whether or not you were six dollar out of pocket for your kindness to me, there really has never been any doubt in my mind [but?] that you would come out all right in the end.
What about the general [squash-up?] that has been going on about Yakutat? Does it not look as though you ought to be up there attending to your glaciers so that they may not all be spoiled?

Very sincerely yours, …

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Letter From Henry Gannett To John Muir, 1899 Sep 25., Henry Gannett Sep 1899

Letter From Henry Gannett To John Muir, 1899 Sep 25., Henry Gannett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

M.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON,D.C., Sept.25,1899.

Mr.John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.,

My dear Muir:

I reached home about ten days ago with my wife and daughter, and found the former much improved in health by her stay at Sissons. Since arriving I have ordered a number of things sent to you, books, maps, etc., which I hope will reach you all right.By this mail I send a copy of the four sheet map of Alaska, with our route marked on it in red ink.
With my kindest regards to Mrs. Muir and the girls, I am, …

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Letter From John Burroughs To John Muir, 1899 Sep 24., John Burroughs Sep 1899

Letter From John Burroughs To John Muir, 1899 Sep 24., John Burroughs

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Slabsides, [West Park, N.Y.],
Sept. 24, '99.

Dear John Muir,

Many thanks for your letter and for Mrs. Colver's enclosed. Yours was the first word I had had from any member of the H.A.E. Shortly after I had one from the Averell girl, and a few days since came one from Dr. Fisher.
I found all well at home and that the bottom had not fallen out of things on account of my absence. Indeed, I am beginning to suspect the sun would rise and set just the same and grapes would continue to ripen, if 1 were to vanish …

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Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To [John Muir], 189[9] Sep 21., Mary Muir Hand Sep 1899

Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To [John Muir], 189[9] Sep 21., Mary Muir Hand

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Kearney, Neb

Sep. 21. 189

Dear brother John

and family -

No doubt you have about given up all thought of hearing from me. I have been for too long in writing, but never mind I may do better in days to come. Before me lies a letter, partly ready that was written for you a month ago. If you will give credit for a little good intention, I will proceed to rewrite some of it.
I thank you for the Atlantic Monthly you

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sent us nearly a year ago.
We enjoyed your article The Yellowstone …

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