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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Nov 3., Walter H. Page Nov 1898

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Nov 3., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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book publication of your matter.
1) You are to get on as fast as you will with the essays that we have been publishing about the National Parks, and as soon as they are done you will put them in proper order and shape for a book, the completed manuscript of which we hope to have by next spring,[illegible] so that it may be issued early next fall on our fall List.

2) Then, as soon as you conveniently can, you will turn to the preparation of a book about Alaska. As much of it as you wish we …

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Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 2., Helen Muir Nov 1898

Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 2., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California. Nov. 2, 1898

Dear Papa

About a week ago we received a letter from Burlington and a Postal from Montreal and then we received a Postal Card that you must have forgoten to write on for there was nothing on it but the address, even the post mark was rubed out so we could not tell where it came from, we were all very sorry not to hear from you.
This afternoon Wanda and I went over to Aunt Margaret's, she has not been well for a few days but she is as well as usual now. …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 1., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Four Brook Farm

Tyringham, Berkshire Hills,

Nov. 1, 1898

My dear Helen.

This is Mr. Gilder's place in the country about 150 miles from New York. It is in a broad glacial valley & is the most famed for its picturesque beauty of all New England. Mr. Gilder invited me up here last Saturday & Ive been rambling with him & resting & having a fine time everway Mr. Gilder has five children two of the boys are at school & two of the girls are here they are about 6 & 8 years old & a few minutes …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Nov 1., Charles Sprague Sargent Nov 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Nov 1., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, November 1, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I took the liberty of opening the enclosed telegram which came for you here this morning. I got home Saturday night all right and have been in bed ever since. Now the doctor says I am cured and, although still a little weak, I think I am all right.
The plan now is to leave here Tuesday evening next, taking the train which goes by the East River without stopping in New York City. This train reaches Wilmington, Delaware, early Wednesday morning. I shall be accompanied by …

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Among The Animals Of The Yosemite., John Muir Nov 1898

Among The Animals Of The Yosemite., John Muir

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

Among the Animals of the l'osemtte. AMONG THE ANIMALS OF THE YOSEMITE. The Sierra bear, brown or gray, the sequoia of the animals, tramps over all the park, though few travelers have the pleasure of seeing him. On he fares through the majestic forests and caftons, facing all sorts of weather, rejoicing in his strength, everywhere at home, harmonizing with the trees and rocks and shaggy chaparral. Happy fellow ! his lines have fallen in pleasant places, — lily gardens in silver-fir forests, miles of bushes in endless variety and exuberance of bloom over hill-waves and valleys and along the …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 28., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oct. 28, 1898.

My dear Wanda,

I've been trying to tell you the course of my wanderings, since I left home, partly that I might thus help to keep track of myself, I've been going so fast and have made so many turns and doubles far and near in so many states north and south -- enjoyed so much and been bothered and fussed so much -- mixed day and night so much in cars, hotels, friends’ homes, steamboats, shanties, etc. it is no easy matter to keep anything like a clear record. I think I wrote last from Burlington, …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To Emma [Muir], 1898 Oct 26., Sarah Muir Galloway Oct 1898

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To Emma [Muir], 1898 Oct 26., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage, Wis.

Oct 26/98

[in margin: John has been taking a long trip East and South, but I fear he will not be able to visit us this year.]

Dear Sister Emma

I have heard that you are not very strong and I have thought of writing to you for a long time. You know I have had good opportunity of finding out just how it seems to go pulling along without much strength or energy to do the things that you would, or what need to be done. I hope that by this time you are better and …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 23., Wanda Muir Oct 1898

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 23., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Calif.

Oct. 23, 1898

Dear Papa,

I suppose that by this time you are in New York or Boston or some where near them and that you are having a fine time, but I hope that you will not like them well enough to stay quite as long as you say Prof. Sargent wants you to.
We have not received any letters from you for several days but we have enjoyed the ones from Knoxville, Chattanooga, Huntsville and all the other places so much, and your descriptions.

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of the wonderful forests that you have seen, I …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Oct 22., Robert Underwood Johnson Oct 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Oct 22., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York,
Oct. 22, 1898.

Dear Muir:

I am very glad to hear that we are to see you at last, after Nature has got through with your devotions. If I had known you were to be in the mountains of this region I should have been tempted to join you. I was for a week at Stockbridge about that time, and should have asked you to come there if you had let me know your whereabouts. But you have the advantage of me of being "deevilish sly" scotting through the city by night, no doubt, probably disguised as John …

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda, Helen & Mama [Muir], 1898 Oct 18., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wanda, Helen & Mama [Muir], 1898 Oct 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Oct 18 1898

Dear Wanda & Helen & Mamma

Im pretty sleepy, for it was after midnight when I went to bed last night & the bed was only a confounded stuffy jiggling bunk at the top of a sleeping or sleepless car. But this day was so crisp & bright & delightful, so full of lovely & wild scenery it might awaken the dead & do away with sleep altogether. I stopped here on my way from Montreal to the White Mountains & all the scenery was beautiful & must be beautiful all the year but robed …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 18., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Montreal, Canada, Oct. 16 [1898].

Dear Helen,

I'm writing this on the train just starting across the great St. Lawrence River for Burlington, Vermont, on beautiful Lake Champ lain that you have read about in Farkman's books. Then I'm going to the White Mountains for a few days, and then back to Boston. This is a very large city, and the great flood of crystal water from the Lakes with many islands is magnificent. It is a fine bright morning, keen and frosty, and the red and yellow foliage along the river banks is gloriously brilliant. I'll soon be home. …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Oct 17., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Oct 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I leave here at 11 tonight

[letterhead]

Oct 17 1898

Dear Louie -

I'm on my way to Montreal by way of Lakes George & Champlain mostly see the woods in their glorious autumnal dress. I left Boston this morning & expect to be in Montreal tomorrow & return by the lakes & the White Mountains. Expect to be in Boston again in about a week. Then spend a few days seeing people, Agarriz, [Mrs?] Gray Wolcott Gibs Hunnewell & some of Pages friends. Then go to NY. & spend a few days then home, which way I dont …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Oct 17., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Oct 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Oct 17 1898

My dear Johnson.

I am now making a little lonely raid northward to see the woods before the autumn tints fade. I left Boston this morning & expect to be in Montreal tomorrow morning return by Champlain & Lake George thence make a run through the White Mtns & back to Boston next Monday or so - Had a grand time in the southern woods our south most point was Tuscaloosa Alabama - I meant to stop at N.Y. on our way back but was told to hurry north to see the woods in glory …

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Letter From Louie Wanda [Muir] To John Muir, 1898 Oct 10., Louie Wanda Muir Oct 1898

Letter From Louie Wanda [Muir] To John Muir, 1898 Oct 10., Louie Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Helen and Wanda are well and live out in the sunshine most of the time. Fannie Douglass is a good walker and stays with them and besides they have taken long walks along the hilltops with Eva Griffin and several Martinez girls. One Saturday eleven of them went over to see the great Laurel, and they have planned an excursion to the Briones Hills.
Edith Blaisdell stays here about four days a week to help me as Blanche, wants to stay with her sister and sew as much as she can.
There is plenty of water in the new …

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Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 8., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

untsville, Ala., Oct. 8th, 1898.

Dear Wanda and Helen:

Yesterday noon we got here from Chattanooga, passing through beautiful hilly and mountainous scenery all the way -- more than a hundred miles -- all covered with a close growth of trees, except the little valleys and clearings of the settlers covered with weeds and corn and cotton. The trees are junipers, maples, many oaks, some of them with long narrow leaves that make them look like willows, two kinds of magnolia, linden, ash, liriodendron, elm, beech, sorrel, nyssa, liquidambar, yellow wood, celtis, five or six kinds of hickory, chestnut, etc. …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 7., Wanda Muir Oct 1898

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 7., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez Calif.

Oct 7 1898

Dear Papa,

We have received your delightful lot of letters and telegrams and enjoyed them all so much, your letter from Knoxville, Tenn. came yesterday. What a fine time you must be having! We were all very glad to hear that you were well again, for we had been worrying about you a good deal. We are all well here and are very careful about watching the fires. Aunt Margaret is about as usual, she received your letter with the lovely little heathwort blossoms in it

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and we always take our own …

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Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 7., Helen Muir Oct 1898

Letter From Helen Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Oct 7., Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Martinez California Oct. 7, 1898

Dear Papa,

We got your letter yesterday and your telagram a few days ago and we were all so very glad to hear from you. We have had two of the lovelyest big rains and they lade the dust and made it really muddy and I think it will rain again for it is cloudy.
Last Monday Blanche, [Mand?] and Wanda and I went for a walk on the hills, we went along the ridge untill we got nearly to Penole then we went along way south and made a circle and came out …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Oct 6., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Oct 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Chattanooga, Tenn.,
Oct. 6, 1898.

Dear Louie,

We have had a very interesting day in the grand hickory and oak woods on the hills and river bottoms within ten miles of Chattanooga, and along the battlefields of Missionary Ridge and Chickamauga where some of the most terrible battles of the war were fought. The Government has made 30 or 40 miles or more of firm roads along which we drove in a carriage with a guide. The Chickamauga National Park is 12 miles square and the positions of the armies are marked by hundreds of monuments, most of them by …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 5., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Oct 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Tuscaloosa, Alabama

Oct. 5. 1898

Dear Helen.

I got telegram from Huntsville yesterday glad to know you are well.
We had a fine trip on Black Warrior River & saw canebrakes & magnificent flowers & trees the weather is hot. We can get no further south on account of Yellow fever. Now we turn North by Birmingham Chattanooga & Lexington. Will be in New York in a week or so have letters sent there & to Jamaica Plains.
We leave here in a few minutes. The streets are grand oak [illegible] trees Willows water & [illegible] oak. a [illegible] [illegible] …

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Letter From [Louie Strentzel] Muir To David Starr Jordan, 1898 Oct 4., Louie Strentzel Muir Oct 1898

Letter From [Louie Strentzel] Muir To David Starr Jordan, 1898 Oct 4., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oct. 4 1898

Martinez - Cal. 4

David Starr Jordan, [Pres?] Stan. Univ.

I have forwarded your letter care Underwood Johnson Editor Century Magazine. Mr Muir intends reaching New York about October fifteenth.

Mrs John Muir.

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Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 2., John Muir Oct 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Oct 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oct 2 1898

My dear Helen & Wanda -

We are in Georgia now as you see & not far from where I passed on my long walk to the Gulf of Mexico long ago. We hired a team this morning & a negro boy for a driver & have been riding most all day in the beautiful woods & along the [Coosa?] River & over some pretty steep hills making many stops to examine the rare plants & trees & bushes. There are 3 kinds of hickory trees here & Mr Sargent made the negro boy climb I …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 30., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Knoxville, Term.,
Sep. 30.1898.

Dear Louie.

We arrived here by train an hour ago. 10 P.M.. and have just had supper. We came direct from Ashville and Biltmore, where we spent three days and had a grand time driving and walking over the Biltmore estate, royally entertained by the superintendents. The views, hilly and mountainous, are superb, but the forests are far inferior to those we passed through for 75 miles between Roan Mountain and Lenoir, and as for Vanderbilt's magnificent chateau and drives, I soon tired of them.
We are now in Grandma's country, Tennessee, and here for the …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Sep 26., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Sep 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Lenoir, N. Carolina.
Sep. 26, [1898]

Dear Helen.We are just starting for Biltmore -- will get there about midnight. We are now at Hickory waiting [for] another train. A grand thunderstorm is going on. We will be a day or two at Biltmore. Then we go to the mountains of Alabama. Yesterday we rode 38 miles through a very beautiful forest of many kinds of trees, most of them with colored leaves, and climbed a mountain called Grandfather, covered with very fine flowers, shrubs, and trees. The drive from Roan Mountain to Lenoir, 75 miles, is, I think, the finest …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 25., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep 25 1898

Dear Louie.

We drove up here from Cranbury Yesterday, a distance about 18 miles through the most beautiful deciduous forests I ever saw. All the landscapes in every direction are made up of mountains, a billowing sea of them without bounds as far as one can look. & every mountain hill & ridge & hollow is densely forested with so many kinds of trees their mere names would fill this sheet. & now they are beginning to put on [this?] purple & gold. Liriodendron Nyssa, sassafras, oxydendron mountain Ash Tilia birch beech hickory ash magnolia 3 …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Sep 22., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1898 Sep 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep. 22

1898

My dear Wanda

I sent you a p[illegible]ed [leaf?] from my notebook yesterday from the train. & here is an appendix for it in ink. We arrived at this charming inn after dark in the rain tired out & more than half sick with bad food & overabundance of fine scenery. New flowers new trees etc. Just this moment Sargent who was out on the porch looking at the rain & magnolias, liquid ambers, sassafras, rhododendron, liriodendron, chestnut oak & scarlet hemlock etc. came in & said "Muir what are you writing? a romance"? I said …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], [1898] Sep 20., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], [1898] Sep 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1898]

Boston Sep 20. 10am.

Dear Wanda we are just leaving the Boston Station for N Carolina. At Washington we will pick up Canby & go right on. At New York we have to change cars & wait 2 hours & expect to meet Johnson to whom we have telegraphed I have not felt well for a few days so stopped over yesterday at Sargents [illegible] plan at Brookline. We telegraphed Page & he came out to lunch & stayed 2 hrs. He is a mighty smart fellow.
The horrible food & eternal jolting & Carbonic acid upset my stomach. …

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Letter From Alice Eastwood To John Muir, 1898 Sep 19., Alice Eastwood Sep 1898

Letter From Alice Eastwood To John Muir, 1898 Sep 19., Alice Eastwood

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Sept. 19. 1898

My dear Mr. Muir:

Mr. Henry Gannett, the chief topographer of the United States, was in last week to entreat [very?] aid in helping him to find out whether estimates of the standing timber had been made in California and, if they had been compiled, where these estimates were to be found.
The U.S. Govt. seems at last to be making an effort to discover how many trees it owns or ought to own.
I could not tell him anything; but advised him to go to see you.

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This, he could not do …

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Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 13., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Sep 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Sep. 13 1898

My dear wife

I arrived here this morning after a pleasant trip though yesterday we were detained an hour or two by the breaking of a piston. We got another engine & after running 20 or 30 miles the valve gear of the second gave way & we were again at a stand still on the Dakota plain. We got a third & this also broke down in the night & everybody went Hoodoo hunting. We reached St Paul 3 or 4 hours late but by taking a night train to Duluth arrived early enough …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Sep 10., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1898 Sep 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Montana Sep 10 1898

My dear Helen

I am now in the Rocky Mountains, going through a forest of beautiful larches on the bank of a branch of the Kootenai River. Mixed with the larch there are a good many Yellow Pines & [tree?] leaved & Mosentine pines & Rocky Mountain Spruce & birch & small maples. It is a calm sunny day & rather warm but I am enjoying the trip very much. It's hopeless to try to tell you about it with horrid pen & the swaying jolting jumbling car I had a fine view of Mt …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1898 Sep 1., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1898 Sep 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

he is just starting for the Alleghanies

Martinez, Sep 1. 1898

My dear Lukens

I see you have been doing good forest work this summer & having a good time Next Wednesday I start last to see the eastern forest along the Alleghanies for a month or two. Goodbye. Remember me to all the family. Love to Lottie

Ever Yours

John Muir

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