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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Sep 1., John Muir Sep 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Sep 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Sep 1. 1898

My dear Johnson

I leave San Francisco next Wednesd evening the 7th due in Boston the 16th Set out in a day or two to see trees in the Alleghenies in month or so then hope to see you a few days before [home?] going This is as far as I know or see.
Remember me to [Mrs?] Johnson & the children & [believe?] me ever yours with many thanks for your kind plans in my behalf.

John Muir

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Aug 16., Robert Underwood Johnson Aug 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Aug 16., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

August 16, 1898.

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

My dear Muir:-

I hope you will give me as soon as possible the dates of your departure from California and your arrival in New York so that I may reserve some time for you. We are so busy in New York that we often have to know in advance in order to arrange anything for our out of town friends, and I do hope to be able to have a few days with you and Burroughs in the country.

Sincerely yours,

[illegible]

Mr, John …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Aug 12., Charles Sprague Sargent Aug 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Aug 12., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, August 12, 1898.

My dear Muir:

Glad to see your handwriting of August 1st. Let me know when to expect you, I shall be ready any time after the middle of September, but, as I have already written you, come as much earlier as you can.
I enclose a note from our friend Wood of San Bernadino. He may be a useful man if there is any more stirring up to be done of forest reservation matters. I wish you would return his letter to me sometime, as well as this one of …

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Letter From John Muir To C[Harles] D[Wight] Williard, 1898 Aug 8., John Muir Aug 1898

Letter From John Muir To C[Harles] D[Wight] Williard, 1898 Aug 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible]

A, SERIOUS MENACE.

The Express In its Issue of August 2nd spoke of the need for quick and vigorous action to save the mountain growths of this region from utter destruction. Sheep men and campers, but particularly sheep men, threaten the prosperity of these Southern California valleys more and more seriously every year, by setting fire to the forest trees, underbrush and beds of leaves which are our only protection against floods and droughts.
Rains absorbed by mountain slopes are' so much clear gain to the farmers. Those which rush down in torrents, disappearing in the sands of the …

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Letter From Benj[Amin?] N. Payo To John Muir, 1898 Aug 4., Benjamin N. Payo Aug 1898

Letter From Benj[Amin?] N. Payo To John Muir, 1898 Aug 4., Benjamin N. Payo

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Pasadena Aug 4. 1898

Mr John Muir

Dear Sir

I send you by even date copy of L.A. Evening Express. with article marked on Editoral page - I had written two before on the same general subject which were printed on the same page. and this one is the result of a letter I wrote to Mr. J.P. Lukens (who is in Big Bear this summer), for for facts regarding the devastation of our mountain reservations by sheep. I am, two or three times a year, an eye witness of the rascality in question.
I have read with great satisfaction …

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Letter From John Muir & Robert M. Price To David Starr Jordan, 1898 Aug 3., John Muir, Price M. Robert Aug 1898

Letter From John Muir & Robert M. Price To David Starr Jordan, 1898 Aug 3., John Muir, Price M. Robert

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco, Aug. 3rd, 1898.

Pres. David Starr Jordan
Stanford University, Cal.,
Dear Sir:

The Sierra Club has been requested by certain citizens of Visalia and Bakersfield to favor the inclusion in the Sierra forest Reservation, of Township 26 South, Range 30 East, Mount Diablo Base and Meridian. A meeting of the Directors of the Sierra Club will be held at 11 A. M., on Saturday, Aug. 8, 1898, to take action in this matter.

Robert M. Price. John Muir

Secretary. President.

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Aug 3., John Muir Aug 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Aug 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Aug. 3, 1898

My dear Johnson.

I have just read your Editorials on the war, civil service, etc. They are capital.
We miss the few soldiers that have been so admirably [poling?] the National Parks. Sheep & fire destruction are going merrily on. Some 85000 sheep it is said were in the Yosemite Park alone & were drawn out by special agents & guards. Of course they cannot keep them out. How Pinchot can be opposed to soldiers & in favor of civilians & to some extent of sheep in the view of results passes my understanding.
I …

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Letter From Katherine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1898 Jul 28., Katherine Merrill Graydon Jul 1898

Letter From Katherine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1898 Jul 28., Katherine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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The matter it would be righted as soon as could be.
My plans are not made. I may go home soon I may linger a little while. I can not see my way "at [birds?] their [tracklers?] park". I'm too sore to decide.
I hope you are all well. Give my love to the family and don't go back on me now!
When do you go East and how long to be gone? Of course I know not where you are, but this will reach Mrs. Muir if not yourself. Thank you for writing to my mother

Ever Sincerely, …

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Letter From John Muir To [Alice] Mcchesney, 1898 Jul 15., John Muir Jul 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Alice] Mcchesney, 1898 Jul 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Mrs. J. B. MeChesney]

Martinez, July 15, 1898.

My dear Mrs. MeChesney:

It is delightful to get your Yosemite letter so full of the mountain air and old-time happy memories, How George and Alice must have enjoyed the blessed songful waters and the woods and rocks. I've been trying for weeks to write a few articles about them for a little book, and was at work on the Yosemite region when your letter came. I wish I could talk it over with you. Strange how hard it is to get to Oakland. I haven't yet seen …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, July 13, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have today received the enclosed note from Canby who says that he has already written you about our journey. The scheme seems to be to leave here or New York about the 15th of September for the south, but that does not mean that you must put off coming here until that date, for the sooner you come the better I shall be pleased as we can have some good times in New England together before starting for the south, although at the end of August …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 11., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 11., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, July 11, 1898.

My dear Muir:

Do you know anything about the Abies which is said to form a great forest to the west of the Sierra Nevada in the neighborhood, I should think, of Susanville, Marcus E. Jones told me of it last year but was very vague as to the species. He said, however, it was Abies magnifica, although I should expect Abies concolor in that dry region and at a low altitude. J. Burtt Davy, botanist of the University of California, has written me of the same thing and calls …

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Letter From William M. Canby To John Muir, 1898 Jul 11., William M. Canby Jul 1898

Letter From William M. Canby To John Muir, 1898 Jul 11., William M. Canby

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

July 11 1898

Dear old streak o'lightning on ice,

I was delighted to hear from the glacier period once more and to know that you were going to make your escape from Purgatory and merge in the Heavenly forests of the Alleghenies. As to going with you and Sargent I intend to do it - if possible. With yours came a letter from S. asking me to place out a route. re. - and you speak of those woods which I know so well. Well I must say that if Sargent does not know the southeastern woods I do …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1898 Jul 11., Robert Underwood Johnson Jul 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1898 Jul 11., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York,

July 11, 1898.br>
My dear Mrs. Muir.

If only the Muse were as kind to me as your telegram shows you to be! The Santiago fight is inspiring in itself, in its details of magnanimous actions by the victors, in the pathetic but high-minded appreciation by the defeated of these actions, and, last, in the far-reaching benefits to mankind which that great victory assures. I didn't wish for this war, but I have never had any doubt that the cause was in the main -and despite eddies of greed and selfishness -- in the direction of "freedom for …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Jul 9., John Muir Jul 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Jul 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: A little trip with you Burroughs will be mighty tempting. & Ill hope it may be managed]

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Martinez, July 9, 1898

My dear Johnson.

I hope to get away from here in August, go around by the great lakes spend a few days in my old haunts in the Canada woods & go south with Sargent & Canby along the Alleghenies to see the grand trees there in their autumn golden plumage, then home. This all save a day or so in New York to salute you & perhaps a day in Boston.
I'm glad the reserves …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 8., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jul 8., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, July 8, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have yours of June 31st--many thanks for your kind and appreciative words, few such come my way, but plenty of kicks.

Thank heaven I the forest reservations are safe as far as the land goes for another year. pinchot, of cource, in the Department of Agriculture will do a great deal of harm, but I am in hopes he will soon wind himself up. we must combat where there is opportunity the idea that Pasturage does no harm to forest, and we must fight to the …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Jul 6., Walter H. Page Jul 1898

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Jul 6., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

we are heartily at your service, not only anxious to put you in book form as soon as you are ready, but very eager to do so, but not willing to spoil so good a pudding by hasty cooking.
Best of all the good news that your letter brings is the hope that it gives that we may have the pleasure of seeing you here soon. Please let me know some time beforehand, so that I may be sure to be here.
Hoping that the Yosemite paper will come along at your very earliest convenience, and with all good wishes. …

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1898 Jul 5., John Muir Jul 1898

1898 Jul 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[answer?] to my invitation to spend summer with us in San B. Mts

Martinez, July 5, 1898

My dear Lukens.

I thank you for the kind San Bernardino invitation which I am sorry to say I can't accept as I am busy with some promised scribbling I'm very glad to learn you are all well & that Lottie is herself again.
I hope to see the Atlantic woods this fall. Hope you'll have a fine time.

Love to Lottie & kindest regards to all the family.

Ever Yours

John Muir

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Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1898 Jul 1., Mary Merrill Graydon Jul 1898

Letter From Mary M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1898 Jul 1., Mary Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1514 Central Ave., [Indianapolis],
July 1st, '98.

My dear Mr. Muir,

Your last letter was but another of your kindnesses. Thank you for this, and all other kindness. I am very sorry about the change for Kate, but feel sure Mr. McChesney was no party to it. For two years she did not receive the salary she "signed for," but there seemed to be no help for it. Kate has many friends in Cal. - to some she is much attached, as yourself and Samuel Alexander. The climate there had been beneficial and the work congenial, but it is so …

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Letter From Dean W. Park To John Muir, 1898 Jul 1., Dean W. Park Jul 1898

Letter From Dean W. Park To John Muir, 1898 Jul 1., Dean W. Park

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Box 118, July 1, 98

John Muir,

Dear Sir,

I have long meant to write to you and ask you about an article on the water ousel which Mr. Foley told me of while I was at Yosemite. Please tell me if it is a pamphlet and price. I am much interested in your writings - and in birds, but it has been my fortune not to meet your articles on birds but on mountains, glaciers, etc. Your article on King's River Carron in old Century, I read lately and visited the Carron.
If I remember aright you have …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 31., John Muir Jun 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez June 31, 1898

My dear Prof. Sargent -

I'm glad to learn you got the magnifica flowers it was all that was needed to complete the job. I went to the Tahoe woods because Miss Eastwood has been gone a week without sending me a word. & I sent the telegram knowing you would be anxious when the flower [tirns?] of these trees would soon be over.
As for thanks I was glad of an excuse to leave my confounded scribbling.
I hope your [palm?] puzzles will soon be solved. Anyhow you get no pity from me on account …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 29., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 29., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, June 29, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have from Johnson the enclosed note. He sends me one from you and another from Lacey, chairman of the Public Lands Committee of the House, from which it appears that the Senate will have to recede from its action and that the reservations are to be preserved a little longer. Lacey says,-
"The question of allowing sheep in some parts of the California reserves is one upon which there is a good deal of difference of whoopinion; some of the people there are interested in the …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Jun 27., Robert Underwood Johnson Jun 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Jun 27., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

J.

June 27, 1898.

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

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

The forest reserves are all right, but I cannot help thinking that one reason why they are all right is that the Republicans have (apparently) excluded them from the operation of the civil-service law; that is, they are going to use the forest service as a Republican electioneering force. I shall write to McKinley very soon on the subject.
Lacey, who has been a great friend of the reserves, says that the civil-service examination is not …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 27., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 27., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica plain, mass, june 27, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have your note of the 21st telling me that you are sending another lot of Abies flowers. I am glad to get them as every tree sharp in the world who deserves such specimens will be glad of a share, as these flowers do not exist in any herbarium in this country or Europe.
I do not very well see how Canby could refuse to be of our party if he wants to after the handsome compliments which you write about him and which I am …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 24., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 24., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
Jamaica Plain, Mass., June 24, 1898.

My dear Muir:

You have done the trick this time and done it well. Last Saturday I received an unsigned telegram saying the Abies flowers were sent. Not knowing then that, you had left for the mountains, I supposed that the telegram had been sent by Miss Eastwood whom I knew was in the field, so this morning when I received a letter from her saying that she had been unsuccessful in securing the pistillate flowers I felt rather dejected, but about noon your box came and I feel sure, …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Jun 24., John Muir Jun 1898

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Jun 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez June 24, 1898

My dear Sellers

I congratulate you on the happy journey onward of your good father the so called death - of a good man in ripe age is no more to be deplored than the bright sundown end of a good day Both an [alike?] natural & ordained by God's love.
You need not lament my failure to get the flowers of the magnifica Silver Fir that trip with you, for I at last found them in all their glory. After searching the woods above Donner Lake & in the Washoe Range I went to Shasta, …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 21., John Muir Jun 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, June 21, 98

My dear Prof. Sargent

After mailing a letter to you yesterday I received the enclosed from Miss Eastwood which shows pretty clearly that no magnifica flower may be looked for from the summit station. And Mr Sonne from what I saw of the Washoe trees is not very likely to collect any, for in a day in these woods I saw not a single tree with staminate flowers even though they are ten thousand times more abundant then the pistillate. In case then that any accident should befall the box I expressed you on the 17th …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Jun 21., Walter H. Page Jun 1898

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Jun 21., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN & CO., Publishers.

New York Office,
II.E. 17th St.

Boston,. June 21, 1898.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I have been hoping to receive at least one of the other papers that are yet to come front you for the Atlantic--- by this time, but we are always so glad to get what you send that we can never afford, and are indeed never disposed, to be impatient.
I write you now not only to express a hope that the next article will soon be on its way to us, but especially to inquire about the possibility of bringing out …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1898 Jun 19., Alfred H. Sellers Jun 1898

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1898 Jun 19., Alfred H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

June 19, 1898

My dear friend Muir -

I found your letter of the 8th inst awaiting me on my return from Woodstock Ills.
We have been out there for sometime attending the last days of my poor old father who died last week, or rather went to sleep quitely at the ripe old age of 91 years 7 mos & 28 days.
We were delighted to hear from you but were

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but disappointed that you did not find the flowers knowing that others were looking for them for Sargent, we but hoped you would …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 15., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1898

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 15., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

My dear Muir:

Today I am fortunate in getting your letters of the 7th and 9th, as well as the staminate flowers of Abies magnifica which, although not fully grown, are not without value as they show clearly some of the early stages of development.
I read with a great deal of pride and pleasure what you say about the last volume of The Silva. I can only wish that I could find language to properly depict the beauty and grandeur of form and constitution of many of our trees, but, unlike you, I am not …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Jun 14., Robert Underwood Johnson Jun 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Jun 14., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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June 14, 1898.

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

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

Thanks for your note of the 8th of June.
I am sending to our friends in Washington all the information I can get about the invasion of the National Park. I was in Washington the last ten days of May and put in some licks for the Cleveland reservations. The impression there is that they are secure. The House will stand firmly against their abolition. The matter is now in conference on an amendment …

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