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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

A. C. McClurg & Co.

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

CHICAGO .November 12...1895•

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

Dear Sir:-

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

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Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1895 Nov 12., John Muir Nov 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1895 Nov 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 12, 1895.

My dear Mrs. Carr:

Your kind note just received. I hope to get to Pasadena some time after the rush of grape troubles are over for the season and of course will see you all with great pleasure. But you will probably be in S. F. before my southern flight is made and we will look for a visit from you. We are all pretty well. Mrs. Strentzel the invalid is much better than she was a few months ago and will be very glad to see you. It was on my last summer's ramble in …

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Letter From John Muir To Jeanne Carr 1895 Nov 12, John Muir Nov 1895

Letter From John Muir To Jeanne Carr 1895 Nov 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov 12, 1895

My dear Mrs Carr

Your kind note just received I hope to get to Pasadena some time after the rush of grape troubles are over for the season & of course will see you all with great pleasure But you will probably be in S.F. before my southern flight is made and we will look for a visit from you. We are all pretty well. Mrs Strentzel the invalid is much better than she was a few months ago. I will be very glad to see you. It was on my last summers ramble in the …

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Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Nov 11., John Muir Nov 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Nov 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal. Nov. 11, 1895

My dear Mrs Sellers,

The Century Co., a month or two ago, asked me for a photo of myself for use in a pamphlet & I sent them the one you made. How do you like the reproduction?
Are you coming hither this winter? I have not heard a note from either Mr. Sellers or Al. though flitting time is nigh. Keith is glorious now. He has just moved into fine new rooms with his whole flock of paintings & is fairly swelling with triumphant selfcontent, wealth & fame. Yet of course as old-man-boyish as …

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Letter From J[Ames] Bryce To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Nov 9., James Bryce Nov 1895

Letter From J[Ames] Bryce To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Nov 9., James Bryce

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Nov. 9, '95 (?)

Dear Mr. Johnson:

I am not sure if I have ever told you how much disappointed I was at missing Mr. John Muir. As soon as I got his card at the House of Commons I went out to look for him, but he had vanished, and the card bore no address so I could not write to him. I had greatly wished to see him. The means provided for finding members at the H. of C. are so bad that I wish any friends of yours coming to see me there would always put their …

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Letter From Fay H.Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Nov 4., Fay H. Sellers Nov 1895

Letter From Fay H.Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Nov 4., Fay H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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which we think he greatly merits. Pleaes give him our very kindest regards and congratulations. I am "just dying" to see the picture you speak of tho' I do not think Mr. Muir that you and Mr. Keith ought to give us the picture as you have both done so much for us. Please remember me very kindly to Mrs. Muir your dear little girls and Mrs Strentzel.

Yours very truly

Fay H Sellers

[1]

Chicago

11-4-95

[letterhead]

My dear Mr Muir,

Having noticed in the Century Magazine the reproduction of my photograph of you, I was about to …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Oct 29., John Muir Oct 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Oct 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 29, 1895

My Dear Mr Johnson

This will introduce to you Mr J. E. Runcie He loves the Sierra parks & reservations, knows them well, & all about their management & mismanagement He is now trying to get the military authority extended over the reservations so they may have the same Salvation as the National parks, & I know you will assist him all you can

Ever Yours
John Muir

[calling card enclosed]
Mr. J. E. Runcie
[envelope enclosed]10017

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Letter From C[Harles] S.Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 28., Charles Sprague Sargent Oct 1895

Letter From C[Harles] S.Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 28., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 28, 1895.

My near Mr. Muir:

Many thanks for your note or the 21st which reached the Arboretum this morning. You have a way of saying things which give me the greatest pleasure because I know that you understand the subject and are sincere - qualifications possessed by few of my correspondents
Of course my summer's outing is still in embryo.When ittakes shape you shall be the first to know as I am most anxious to have the benefit of your society. I shall be very glad to avail myself of your …

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Letter From Susan M.Gilroy To John Muir, 1895 Oct 19., Susan M. Gilroy Oct 1895

Letter From Susan M.Gilroy To John Muir, 1895 Oct 19., Susan M. Gilroy

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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little trips together & a very happy time in Edinburgh. they are so kind one can't help being happy with them. indeed all the Dunbar people are the same. Mrs Dick & the Pinkerton people & lots more. Jane Mather was here the other night. She is very well & a good [school?]
I have been reading with great interest your writings in "Picturesque California" they make me long to see the country myself. Very many of my cousins have read your "Mountains of California" with great interest & hope when you come back again to see you too. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1895 Oct 18., John Muir Oct 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1895 Oct 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Thanking mo for 150 Photos Others previous to this are lost

Sierra Nevada & San Gabriel Mts

Martinez, Oct. 18, 1895

Reproduced from the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for reference only. Permission necessary for reproduction

My dear Mr Lukens,

Your kind letter & generous package of photographs arrived safely & have thus placed me deeper than ever in your debt. I knew that north Tuolumne country in a general way--knew that its glacial phenomena were on a grand scale & especially heavy but the details you give me in the pictures & letter are …

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Letter From Katharine [M.] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Oct 17., Katharine Merrill Graydon Oct 1895

Letter From Katharine [M.] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Oct 17., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

2530 College Ave.

Berkeley, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I am wondering if you are all well, and if it would be convenient for Miss Thompson and me to come up next Saturday afternoon (the 26th) and stay until Tuesday? I have been wanting to come, to tell you of [homeland?] as well as to hear what the mountains have been saying to you. [illegible] this is really the fist day it has been possible to drop things and get away
Please let me hear in time to make arrangements with Mina Thompson at Palo Alto.

With love to all,

your …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Oct 15., Ann Gilrye Muir Oct 1895

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Oct 15., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I send kind love to you and your family and also to Margt & John and all their family as they have very kindly remembered me at all times
Annie unites with me in kindest love to you all

Affectionately

Mother

[1]

Portage october 15th 1895

Dear John

I gladly received your letter telling me of your arrival safely at home, after your trip to the wild woods, about the same time I received a letter and Photo from Mrs Lunam of herself & daughter from Edinburgh where they were spending there vacation, as a family

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Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Joseph Leggett Oct 1895

Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Joseph Leggett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

October 14th, 1895

John Muir Esq.

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir,

The Board of Trustees of the Mechanics' Institute of this City are endeavoring to arrange a course of lectures on Scientific and literary subjects for the coming winter, and the Committee having the matter in hand have instructed me to write to you and ask you to give us a lecture some time during the season upon any subject you may prefer. If you can comply with our request, I can assure you, your kindness will be gratefully appreciated.

Yours very respectfully

Joseph Leggett

Chrman Comm. on Lectures B. …

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Letter From Mariana Bertola To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Mariana Bertola Oct 1895

Letter From Mariana Bertola To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Mariana Bertola

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oct. 14, 1895

Mr John Muir,

Dear Sir;

Our pupils read of the Muir Glacier in their Geographies and in the newspapers, and when they are told that John Muir lives near us they gaze in astonishment, especially when he is pointed out to them while he is passing by. Now, for the sake of the rising generation, I ask you this favor, will you, some Friday afternoon, give the school (the Grammar Grades) a talk on Alaska, or the Yosemite? Of course, we cannot pay you for your trouble--indeed, a talk like that to our grammar pupils could …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Oct 12., Robert Underwood Johnson Oct 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Oct 12., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Stockbridge, Mass.,
Oct. 12, 1895.

My dear Muir:

I am most interested and obliged by your long letter concerning Yosemite affairs, and I hope to make use of the facts you have given to the advantage of the Valley -- sooner or later.
I have been spending a month's vacation in Stockbridge -- and this last week I have been visiting here at the country house of Joseph H. Choate, a beautiful big house built by Stanford White and overlooking the Housatonic Valley. I like the region greatly, and hope to have a country home here within two or three …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 10., Charles Sprague Sargent Oct 1895

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 10., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 10, 1895.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I am very much pleased with your note of the 1st inst. If people realized how much pleasure such words sometimes give they would write them oftener. Few such come in my way, and when they are written by a fellow who knows trees and the difficulty of learning much about them, they are the more welcome.
I am now about to take up seriously the Conifers and so shall be entering your province. You may expect therefore to hear from me often and to receive …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1895 Oct 4., Sarah Muir Galloway Oct 1895

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1895 Oct 4., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: If I find there is any special need I will let you know as you wish]

Portage, Wis.

Octr 4. /95 -

Dear brother John,

Your letter has been received, and it made me glad to see your handwriting once more and glad again to know of your pleasure in going over the old ground, studying and working with all the old enthusiasm, and finishing the truths wrought out so long ago, made doubly clear by the vast experience gained through the studies of later years.
But truly John I thought that now you are "growing old you …

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 1, 1895.

My dear Mr. Johnson,

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

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir Oct 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California

October, 1, 1895

My dear cousin,

Coming down from the High Sierra, where I have been sauntering & sunning for six weeks, I found your welcome Edinburgh letter & Gilderoy both of which I was glad to get, & I thank you very much for the kind thoughts & care for me, & the trouble you took to copy the Gilderoy. I think it is very interesting, & this is the first I have seen of it. You must have enjoyed the grand old town & the fine sermons you heard, & I hope the change of air …

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Letter From I.Rennie To John Muir, 1895 Sep 28., I. Rennie Sep 1895

Letter From I.Rennie To John Muir, 1895 Sep 28., I. Rennie

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I hope you will find time this autumn or winter to pay a visit to my brothers at St. Helena.
My mother has been greatly the better of her trip to the West.
We both of us send you & your folks our best regards.

Yours truly

I Rennie

John Muir Esq

Martinez

02031

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[letterhead]

28th Sep '95

My Dear Muir.

By this post I send you 2 photos of Dunbar, (the fishing quarter) which I took some years ago when on a photoing tour round the East coast. One of our home here, one of myself, & …

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Letter From D[Aniel] H.Muir To [John Muir], 1895 Sep 26., Daniel H. Muir Sep 1895

Letter From D[Aniel] H.Muir To [John Muir], 1895 Sep 26., Daniel H. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Sept 26, 1895

Bro John

To speak of paying you any money in my present financial embarrassment is entirely hopeless. When you were here you offered to assume an incumbrance of $3000. on my home premises and give me $500. and your account against me for a deed of same.
The present incumbrance is $4300. Now if you will take care of that and give me $500. and your account I will give you a deed to my home premises and to 160 acres of land within 2 1/2 miles of Lodge Pole a fine village on the …

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Letter From John Muir To Mother [Ann G. Muir], 1895 Sep 25., John Muir Sep 1895

Letter From John Muir To Mother [Ann G. Muir], 1895 Sep 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Sep. 25, 1895

My dear Mother,

I'm fairly settled at home again and the six weeks mountaineering of this summer in my old haunts are over & now live only in memory & notebooks like all the other weeks in the Sierra. But how much I enjoyed this excursion or indeed any excursion in the wilderness I am not able to tell. I must have been born a mountaineer & the climbs & scootchers of boyhood days about the old Dunbar Castle & on the roof of our house made fair beginnings. I suppose old age will put an …

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Letter From Cora Cressey Crow To John Muir, 1895 Sep 24., Cora Cressey Crow Sep 1895

Letter From Cora Cressey Crow To John Muir, 1895 Sep 24., Cora Cressey Crow

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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vauntings of this little book come to me in the form of a fearful Nemesis when I find how very substantial your pudding is, for you see, although I but cut the string a moment since, I could no more resist peeping into a new book, than to glance at a mirror [illegible]assing which is a wretched comparison but I am overwhelmed by the downfall of my own vain gloriousness and honestly confess to be eating a piece of very humble pie.
Many many thanks for my little Rab, so beautifully prefaced by a [illegible] gentian, which vividly recalls …

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Letter From Thomas Hill To John Muir, 1895 Sep 24., Thomas Hill Sep 1895

Letter From Thomas Hill To John Muir, 1895 Sep 24., Thomas Hill

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Sep. 24th 1895

Professor John Muir.

My Dear Sir

I am pleased to inform you of the reception of the two Books for which I thank you very much. I have not looked into their details as yet, but I know I shall [illegible] in their contents in due time, at present we are very busy transferring the Trout from our little Lake to the streams, and lakes above the upper Chil[illegible], the region of which we talked when you were here.
The weather continues delightfully clear, and cool, the recent storms having cleared the atmosphere, bringing out every detail …

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sep 22 1895

Mr. John Muir

Martinez

My Esteemed Friend,

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

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Letter From Cha[Rle]S F.Lummis To John Muir, 1895 Sep 20., Charles F. Lummis Sep 1895

Letter From Cha[Rle]S F.Lummis To John Muir, 1895 Sep 20., Charles F. Lummis

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sept 20 1895

My dear Mr. Muir:

As you will see by our Oct. number in a few days, we are still climbing. It will be the best we have put out yet.
I am mapping a Christmas number away ahead of our record. Jessie Benton Fremont [diacritic] has written me a valuable article for it, & is lending me all the precious miniatures for illustration. All the rest of the company will be good; & I so wish we might have a peak from you--if only a page, but preferably two or three pages so it can be …

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Letter From T. Hunt To John Muir, 1895 Sep 17., T. Hunt Sep 1895

Letter From T. Hunt To John Muir, 1895 Sep 17., T. Hunt

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Sept 17th 1895

Mr. Muir

Dear Sir--

Your envelope with its most interesting looking papers was received this afternoon just as Mrs. Ballard & I were taking the cars for this place--Mrs. B is already deep in the "Sequoia," & when this is posted I shall have the "Alaska" sheet, & must thank you for them all. I really feared you might forget your promise.
We came here for the mines--in the morning shall drive but to the "Stamp Mills" & to Nevada City in the afternoon. Next day expect to see something of hydraulic mining at Bloomfield, & …

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Letter From Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore To John Muir, 1895 Sep 16., Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore Sep 1895

Letter From Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore To John Muir, 1895 Sep 16., Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[re-] member that I had an article on Muir Glacier stopped in the middle when the concern died.
I suppose that those little girls are quite large girls now, but I trust you will remember me to Mrs. Muir and the daughters, and to any of our mutual Alaska friends whom you may meet.
With best wishes for the grape crop and the rains, I am

Sincerely

Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore

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The Shoreham

Washington D. C. Sept 16, '95

Dear Mr. Muir

I have returned you see safely from my circumnavigation, and now I know for myself that the …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Sep 12., John Muir Sep 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Sep 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Sep. 12, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson,

I have just got home from a six weeks ramble in the Yosemit & Yosemite National Park. For three years the soldiers have kept the sheepmen & sheep out of the park & I looked sharply at the ground to learn the value of the military influence on the small & great flora On the sloping portions of the forest floor when the soil was loose & friable the vegetation has not yet recovered from the [illegible]bblin & destructive action of the sheep feet & teeth, but where a tough sod …

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Letter From Claire S. Robinson To John Muir, 1895 Sep 12., Claire S. Robinson Sep 1895

Letter From Claire S. Robinson To John Muir, 1895 Sep 12., Claire S. Robinson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

September 12, 1895

Mr. John Muir:

Dear Sir:

Knowing that as a stranger I have no right to encroach upon your time, I write trusting that if what I ask shall cause you any trouble, you will not deem it necessary to grant it.
This summer I travelled from the north fork of the Kaweah river through the canons [diacritic] of the Kaweah and Kern to Mount Whitney and ascended the mountain. Since then I have read with keen appreciation and enjoyment your "Mountains of California" and from the

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"Century" for 1891. "A Rival of the Yosemite" I am …

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