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The Alaska Trip., John Muir Aug 1897

The Alaska Trip., John Muir

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

John Muir Author of The Mountains of California WITH PICTURES BY JOHN A. PHASER.1 TO the lover of wildness Alaska offers a glorious field for either work or rest: landscape beauty in a thousand forms, things great and small, novel and familiar, as wild and pure as paradise. Wander where you may, wildness ever fresh and ever beautiful meets you in endless variety: ice-laden mountains, hundreds of miles of them peaked and pinnacled and crowded together like trees in groves, and so high and so divinely clad in clouds and air that they seem to belong more to heaven than …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 29., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

reply to my letter sending him Photos of [Lejon?] big oak & flowers

Martinez, July 29, 1897

My dear Mr Lukens.
I thank you for the photographs of the oaks & interesting flowers with big leaves & for your measurments which disposes of the size question of the [Lejon?] oaks. I expect to leave for the North on the 3d or 4th of next month & I hope to get directions for reaaching those 400 or 400 feet Douglas spruces ere I start which I will if you reply by return mail.
I would be delighted to have you along …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Jul 27., Robert Underwood Johnson Jul 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Jul 27., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

July 27,1897.

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

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

Do not be alarmed about the "dog" story. It is all right, and the country will say so when it is published. The original manuscript will be duly returned to you when the article has appeared.
I am very sorry that I cannot join you and Sargent and go to Alaska, for I understand that now is the time to go to that golden land, but I am an unlucky dog and must go in the …

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Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1897 Jul 22., James D. Mcgilliway Jul 1897

Letter From J. D. Mcgilliway To John Muir, 1897 Jul 22., James D. Mcgilliway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

July 22, 1897,

My dear Dr Muir:

I am not stopping here but the hotel kindly loans me the use of its writing room, I leave on the "Excelsior" as special correspondent for the New York Herald to do up the Yukon & may be gone a year. You can give me a lot of good advice & I want to know if you are coming down this week. If so telegraph or write her to 1300 Leavenworth St. S F.
I get good pay but would give it all up to insure doing good work and so I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 17., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

big Washington trees

Martinez, July 17, 1897

My dear Mr Lukens,

I am going north soon into the woods with Prof. Sargent & I write now to ask you to send me particular directions how to find those '400 or 500' feet trees you told me about on Puget Sound. We mean to visit & measure them. Also send specimen cones or leaves or both of that Paton Hemlock you saw in the San Gabriel Mountains. & of the great oaks.

With love to Lottie

I am very truly Yours

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jul 16., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jul 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal. July 16, 1897.

My dear Mr Johnson.

I think you are right in cutting short the introductory part of Stickun. & I acknowledge your part interest in the [pup?], as I would never have written the story had you not urged me to do so.
I hope howver that in striking for artistic effect you will not blur the story. The narrative should I think be kept whole. Anyhow be sure to leave the legs of the article long enough to distinctly reach the ground. This Stickun story easily told has cost me more time & work than …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 14., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 14., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., July 14,1897.

My dear Muir:

I have your letter of the 7th this morning. I am none the less grateful to you for all the trouble and labor you have incurred in my behalf because you were not successful. Perhaps before autumn we may take a look at these Abies together and make definite arrangements for obtaining the flowers next spring. It certainly would be too bad if this splendid tree was not fully represented in The Silva, and I had rather postpone the appearance of the final volume for a few months …

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Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], [1897 ?] Jjul 10., Wanda Muir Jul 1897

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], [1897 ?] Jjul 10., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Wanda

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Martinez Calif.

July 10

Dear Papa

We received your letter from Hot Springs yesterday and just a few minutes ago your other letter and with the flowers and mica in it and the picture at the top it must be a most wonderful and beautiful place where you are and I hope some day that we may see it too. I hope that it is a good deal cooler where you are than it is here for it has been dreadfuly hot for a long time. everybody says that is is

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trying to make up for the …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Jul 9., Robert Underwood Johnson Jul 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Jul 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

July 9, 1897

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

My dear Muir:-

The dog story is at hand and we are correspondingly happy. I have just sent the copy to the printer, under the title"An Adventure with a Dog and a Glacier," and I have done the story a service by cutting out some of the preliminary material, which retarded the narrative and to some extent gave away the point. Your digressions about dog life in general, and your elaborate descriptions of "Stickeen" take from the surprise with which the reader discovers …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 8., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 8., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARBERD UNIVERSITY.

Jamacia Plain Mass., July 8, 1897.

My dear [J?] Muir:

I have yours of the 1st. There is nothing like being young and energetic, as you seem to be, and I am sure you will not return from Shasta without the flowers we need. If any fellow can show a tree five hundred feet high, we will go and look at it. It is about time, it seems to me,that the maximum height of our trees should be settled. I feel sceptical, however, of finding any over four hundred feet. An Oak sixteen feet in diameter …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jul 8., Walter H. Page Jul 1897

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jul 8., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

is done may we not bring the books out for you?
I congratulate you on your new academic honors, which, however, are valuable less for the distinction that they confer on you, who do not need it, than as an indication that the great public, even including colleges, is waking up to an appreciation of your work. On such a fact as this the great American public, including even the colleges, is to be congratulated.
I herewith return at your request professor Sargent's letter and the newspaper clippings.
I pray you let me hear from you with regard to possible …

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Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1897 Jul 7., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1897 Jul 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Bancroft Library

Martinez, cal. July 7, 1897

My dear Mr Kip.

I thank you for kindly letting me know your summer [trail?] I am going to join Prof. Sargent of Cambridge in a tramp through the Rockies in British Columbia to study Picea this summer. I shall probably leave home about the first of August & may miss you, still it is possible I may have the pleasure of seeing you at the Palace Hotel S.F. on the 3d. & I may even meet you somewhere on the Great Northern R.R. Anyhow you will hear from me.
I have a …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 3., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 3., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBOETUM,
HARBARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain,Mass.,July 3,1897.

My dear Muir:

I have from Congdon, who lives at Mariposa, branches of Abies magnifica with the buds of the staminate flowers still unopened, so there is perhaps still a chance to get them this season from high altitudes. Congdon's specimens were taken on the 6th of June.
Canby cannot leave home until August 1st.This means that I will start on the 2nd and will meet you at Bamff about the 6th or 7th. Of course if there is any change of date, I will notify you in time. We count, of course, …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 3., Charles Sprague Sargent Jul 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jul 3., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GIFFORD PINCHOT,
CONSULTING FORESTER,
NEW YORK.

UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING,
FOURTH AVE. AND 22D ST.

New York, July 2, 1897.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir:

I have recently been appointed Special Forest Agent by the Secretary of the Interior, with the duty of examining and describing the suspended reserves, recommending new boundaries for them and preparing the outline of organization for a forest service.
My work will take me first to Priest Lake, then to Lake Chelan ,where I expect to arrive about July 24, and thence across the Cascades to Seattle or Snohomish.
It looks very much …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 1., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Jul 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: darling Lottie & her Mother Ever yrs truly John Muir]glad of my visit to his home. Mellick was mistaken trees only 8 ft in diameterMartinez, July 1, 1897My dear Mr LukensYour little visit at our house was greatly enjoyed by us all. & we hope you got home safely & found your family well. I have just been writing to Sargent about those wonderful oaks 16 ft in diameter & Douglas Spruce 400 to 500 ft high, also about the Paton hemlock in the San Gabriel Mountains Now Ill be on Puget Sound this summer with Sargent & …

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1897 Jul 1., John Muir Jul 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1897 Jul 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California, July 1, 1897

My dear Cousin,

I received a newspaper from you a day or two ago which shows you bear me in mind. I have been hard at work all winter fighting on behalf of our forests. In a month from now I am going again into the northern wilderness in British Columbia & Alaska to study a few variable trees.
Here is a notice of the honorary degree of L L.D. conferred last commencement on me by the University of Wisconsin, which I thought might interest you Hoping you are well & also my friend Mrs …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To John Muir, 1897 Jun 30., Sarah Muir Galloway Jun 1897

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To John Muir, 1897 Jun 30., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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seemed happy and hopeful. The season here has been very cook, but lately we are having lots of rain and the weather is very warm now, warm enough, to make us feel tired and stupid. but things are growing finely. In a letter David wrote to Annie some time since he said that Carrie and her two boys were with him, also that they were expecting Anne and perhaps Mary. so you will have lots of company this summer, and how much they will enjoy their visit. I received a Harpers Weekly a few days since, which I thought …

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Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jun 30., Theodore P. Lukens Jun 1897

Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jun 30., Theodore P. Lukens

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Lukens on Big Oaks]Pasadena CalJune 30th 1897Dear Mr MuirOn my way home I met Mr C. Knapp of Carpentesca, and he has promised to send me branch and Photo of an oak tree at his place 32 feet in cir. and he thinks it is the largest in this country. but it is not. Mr. Mellick says he measured the one on the Beal Ranch and is is 49 feet around. as soon after the 4th as I can, I will go up am photo it and get branches and acorns and send youI send you some Photos02308 …

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Letter From T[Heodore] P. L[Ukens] To John Muir, 1897 Jun 29., Theodore P. Lukens Jun 1897

Letter From T[Heodore] P. L[Ukens] To John Muir, 1897 Jun 29., Theodore P. Lukens

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Pasadena, Cal., June 29th, 1897.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My Dear Mr. Muir:-

Since my return I have seen Mr. Melick, and he assures me that the Oak tree I mentioned while with you is fully fifteen feet in diameter; that he measured its circumference six feet from the ground, and found it to be forty-nine feet. There are many oaks about there he says that are nearly as large, but does not know the variety or species. Don't you think I had better go up and measure the trees accurately, photograph them, and collect acorns and sprays of …

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Letter From C[Harles] [Kendall] Adams To John Muir, 1897 Jun 26., Charles Kendall Adams Jun 1897

Letter From C[Harles] [Kendall] Adams To John Muir, 1897 Jun 26., Charles Kendall Adams

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN
MADISON

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

June 26 th, 1897.

Mr. John Muir, LL.D.,
California.

Dear Sir:

It gives me pleasure to announce that on the unanimous recommendation of the Faculty, the Board of Regents authorized me on Commencement Day to confer upon you the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws. You have earned it by your explorations and your scientific work and writings The University is proud of your achievements and desires thus to indicate her high appreciation.

I have the honor to be
Very respectfully yours,
C.K. Adams President.

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 25., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 25., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
Jamaica Plain, Mass.,...June...25...1897

My dear Muir:

I have yours of the 18th and write at once to say how delighted I am that you will join me in the field. I will confer with Canby at once and fix a date and place as soon as possible for our meeting.
I did not say anything to you about Abies magnifica before because I did not want to bother you with such triffles. I have not the flowers and I do not believe they are yet out on the high Sierras, so if you feel ambitious for …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jun 25., Walter H. Page Jun 1897

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jun 25., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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have you made any definite arrangment about the publication of the book? If you have not, why might I not use such portions as you would care to have appear in magazine form, and then perhaps you will let me present the book publishing scheme to Messrs Houghton, Mifflin & Co?
I am looking forward with some eagerness to the coming of your next paper--on Parks.--Maybe these new papers will continue til they, too, make a volume.

Very Sincerely Yours,

Walter H. Page

John Muir Esq.

[letterhead]

25, June, 1897.

Dear Mr Muir:

We are getting your paper on …

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Letter From A. Brackets To Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1897 Jun 24, A. Brackets Jun 1897

Letter From A. Brackets To Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1897 Jun 24, A. Brackets

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Graceland June 24th, ’97 Dear Mrs. Muir, Grace + her assistant were over the berry patch this morning + were disappointed in not being able to get to the berries to fill your order. Sorry to disappoint so good a customer. Very, but they are not there. Mrs. Harry [Raap] also wished some. They go so suddenly, after they begin to decrease. Last Sat. the man had such a large load. I think it was. No it was Friday + now they are among the things “that were”. I am very sorry to disappoint you. I hope your very dear …

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Letter From John Muir To [Melville Best] Anderson, 1897 Jun 24., John Muir Jun 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Melville Best] Anderson, 1897 Jun 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, June 24, 97

My dear Prof Anderson

Come on. Will all be glad to see you. & bring any companion you choose.

Every very truly Yours

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1897 Jun 23., John Muir Jun 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1897 Jun 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California June 23, 1897.

My dear Mr Page.

I sent corrected proof of the forests yesterday. I am stupid with the Grippe & there may still be many errors in it. Please look it over & strike out everything you dont like.
As far the honorarium send what you usually do for similar articles.
I am trying to describe the parks, but if this Grippe does not clear off soon I'll go to the wilderness, perhaps before the article is finished. Therefore you must not depend on it.

Very truly Yours

John Muir


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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 22., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 22., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica plain, Mass., June 22,1897.

My dear Muir:

I have a note from you acknowledging the receipt of the reports and asking what the actual condition of the reservations is.
At this time of course you know that Congress has thrown open all the new ones outside of California until the 1st of March, so that the mining corporations can lay in a good supply of stolen timber and squatters can acquire rights to what the mines do not want. What is still worse the Secretary of the Interior can under the law allow any one …

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Letter From C[Ornelius] N[Ewton] Bliss To Gifford Pinchot, 1897 Jun 19., Cornelius Newton Bliss Jun 1897

Letter From C[Ornelius] N[Ewton] Bliss To Gifford Pinchot, 1897 Jun 19., Cornelius Newton Bliss

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Copy.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Washington.

June 19, 1897.

Mr. Gifford Pinchot,
2 Grammercy Park, New York City.

Sir:

I have this day appointed you as a special forest agent under the provisions of the Sundry Civil Act approved June 4, 1897, with compensation of ten dollars per day when actually and necessarily employed, and actual traveling expenses and a per diem of three dollars

3. Their resources other than forests, such as mines and grass and agricultural lands.
4. The principles which should govern future modifications of the boundaries of the forest reserves as tol extension and contraction, and …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jun 18., John Muir Jun 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jun 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, June 18, 1897.

My dear Mr Johnson.

I have just finished that dog story & will send it in a day or two. The story easily told has been very hard to write I thnk it is fairly well done. Please look it over, & if the magazine is going to be so crowded that it can not be published within say five or six months, then return it, as Ill be hanged rather than let you keep it as long as you have my last.
Forest affairs have taken up most of last winter. An article I sent …

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Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jun 12., Theodore P. Lukens Jun 1897

Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jun 12., Theodore P. Lukens

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I will watch for your other articles. I assure you
With kindest regards from us all to you and family I am

Respectfully

T. P. Lukens

Little Lottie says "I have only got two men I love, Mr Muir & GrandPa"

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Pasadena Cal

June 12th 1897

Dear Mr Muir

I am sory to here you are not well, and hope you will soon recover. I have been very poorly & at times am very much discouraged about my health. I wish I could live near Crockers then I believe I would get well.
Your article in Harpers …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 12., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 12., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY,
JAMAICA PLAIN,
MASS.

June...12,...1897

My dear Muir:

I have insufficient information as to the length of time the leaves of some of your California Pines persist on the branches. Can you help me with facts-of this kind as to Pinus insignis, Pinus [illegible] and Pinus murioata? An early answer will oblige,

yours faithfully,
[illegible]John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Gal.

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