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Letter From W. T. Reid To John Muir, 1894 May 21., W. T. Reid May 1894

Letter From W. T. Reid To John Muir, 1894 May 21., W. T. Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

May 21, '94

Dear Mr. Muir,

How deep are you willing to go into the Tahoe lots? I rather hope that those of us who are now in it may take up all the lots & then sell them only to persons whom we all wish very much to have come in. It would be a good thing if a fair proportion of the whole coujld be held for the pubic good & and so keep our numbers down. However, it if seems best to all I am inclined to think that the holding will not be a bad …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 May 21., Frank H. Scott May 1894

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 May 21., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

May 21, 1894

My dear Mr. Muir:-

Your letter of the 16th is received. Please continue to direct the proofs to Mr. Abbott.
I notice what you say as to illustration, and hare telegraphed you to-day to forward any photographs or material you may have for illustrating the first four chapters. When it arrives we will see what can be done. We trust you will be in position to forward immediately, as there will not be much time if we are to have the book ready for our travelers …

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Letter From W. T. Reid To [John Muir], 1894 May 19., W. T. Reid May 1894

Letter From W. T. Reid To [John Muir], 1894 May 19., W. T. Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

May 19, 1894

Dear Sir:

At the late called meeting of those interested in the plan of a summer resort at Lake Tahoe it was voted as probably the most equitable and satisfactory way of disposing of the 45 acres that have been bought for the colony;
1st, to sell lots outright, with no restrictions & no obligations upon the buyer save that he is not to sell again except to a person who has been admitted to the association by un[an]imous consent. If any co-operative plan is adopted membership in it is wholly voluntary.
2nd, to have a …

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Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1894 May 19., Katharine Merrill Graydon May 1894

Letter From Katharine [Merrill] Graydon To John Muir, 1894 May 19., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Berkeley,

May 19th 1894

Dear Mr. Muir,

Your letter reached me last evening, but I could not join you on the train this afternoon on account of an engagement made several days ago. Thank you for the invitation. I will come up and spend a Sunday before long, as I can to see you all and to hear about the new book.

With love to the family. I am

Yours sincerely,

Katharine Graydon.

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie Hay], 1894 May 17., John Muir May 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Annie Hay], 1894 May 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,

May 17th 1894

My dear Cousin.

I was glad to get your kind letter of 27 April & to know you enjoyed reading Picturesque California. I would have sent you a better edition on heavier paper had I known how to get it through the mail.
As to putting more of myself into these sketches I never had the heart to spoil their symmetry with mire personal trials and adventures It looks too much like having to say "Here is the Lord and here is me" Still I know very well that narrative adventures etc are most read, …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1894 May 17., Robert Underwood Johnson May 1894

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1894 May 17., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

May 17th, 1894.

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

My dear Muir:-

I have been so overcrowded with work of different kinds - some of it in the office, and a good deal of it outside - that I have not been able to write you (pro forma) in regard to your article on the Discovery of Glacier Bay. The fact is he have been expecting before this to get it into the magazine; but other imperative things have kept it out. We did expect to get it into the July or …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 May 17., John Muir May 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 May 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez May 17, 1894,

My dear Mr. Johnson,

I haven't heard from you for a long time. Mrs. Muir keeps inquiring what has happened to Johnson? I tell her that you are up to the eyes in Magazine work, writing Polish poetry with Tesla etc.
I should have asked you to read the M.S. of my little book but had not the heart to put such a burden on you. I have corrected the proof of the first four chapters. I see nothing of the Alaska articles yet. When are they coming out. You have not told me whether you …

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Letter From Margaret Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1894 May 15., Margaret Hay Lunam May 1894

Letter From Margaret Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1894 May 15., Margaret Hay Lunam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Westfield, Dunbar, May 15th, '94.

My dear Cousin:

Your kind and welcome letter dated 27th April reached us on May 12th, We are very glad to learn that you are well and very busy making books and looking after work people oh your ranch. We are often speaking about you, and we do think if you have to be in New York this summer you should just come across the big pond to Scotland, even for a month, to see us all again. Your friends are often enquiring after you. Mrs. Kelly was asking very kindly for you on Sunday. …

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Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To John Muir, 1894 May 7., Mary L. Swett May 1894

Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To John Muir, 1894 May 7., Mary L. Swett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hill Girt, May 7, 1894

Dear John Muir

If you knew how many times today the thought has pleasantly recurred to me that you have got a book finished and sent east you would admit my right to take a front rank among congratulatory friends.
I have talked it over with john Lewett and with your sister--Mrs. Reid--She says there are five to follow which is good news for the reading public.
I mean to buy two copies:

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one for myself and one for that cousin of mine in Lynn who is an admirer of your writings. I am …

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Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1894 May 2., Katharine Merrill Graydon May 1894

Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1894 May 2., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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May 2nd 1894

Dear Mr. Muir,

It is a good many months since your letter came telling of your summering of last year, and I have all this time been waiting until I might sit down quietly and [talk?] to you by way of answer. Such a time seems not to come, but I am nevertheless, going to send you a note from the School house, while every class is [digging?] away at a Latin examination.
Next Tuesday eve. my Uncle Col. Merrill, is to be here and to talk to the Longfellow Club at Berkeley, …

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Letter From Charles Notman To John Muir, 1894 Apr 29., Charles Notman Apr 1894

Letter From Charles Notman To John Muir, 1894 Apr 29., Charles Notman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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John Muir Esq.

Martinez

California

Dunbar.

29th April 1894

Dear Sir

re D. Gebryes Trust

I have to apologise for delay in writing you with the proceeds of sale of the £1260 Glasgow & South Western Railway Debenture Stock. When I wrote you on 4th January the stock was low and I thought it better not to sell until the halfyearly dividend was paid in February, as there was a chance that it would recover. This has not turned out as I expected and the Trustees have had to sell at £152 1/2, £151 1/2 and £151 3/4. Since …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Apr 28., Frank H. Scott Apr 1894

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Apr 28., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

April 28, 1894

My dear Mr. Muir:-

I herewith enclose an agreement in duplicate covering the publication of your book, "The Mountains of California," which is made out in our usual form. As stated in my last letter, we do not think it necessary or desirable to avail ourselves of your kind suggestion to guarantee us against loss, but as it is usual and generally most satisfactory to adjust such matters by a modification of the royalty we have made this five per cent on the first 2000 …

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Letter From James M. Hay To John Muir, 1894 Apr 27., James M. Hay Apr 1894

Letter From James M. Hay To John Muir, 1894 Apr 27., James M. Hay

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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classes, and the other painting away, furiously, Maria & baby teaching each other. We prize very much the photos of Wanda & Helen which you so kindly sent us--they are lovely. Uncle Hardie is well & Mrs. Hardie & Mrs. Jeffrey. The Dunbar friends are well too. My wife & baby were there for a few days some two months ago. By the way would it not be well to introduce more of the human element into those wonderful descriptions in picturesque California? I have been watching for the recital of that story of that regiment of squirrels that …

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Letter From David Douglas To John Muir, 1894 Apr 27., David Douglas Apr 1894

Letter From David Douglas To John Muir, 1894 Apr 27., David Douglas

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

10 Castle Street,
Edinburgh, April 27, 1894.

My dear Mr. Muir:

Here I have been week after week thinking of writing to you and yet four months have nearly gone since you sent me kind new year's greetings. Peccavi. Your welcome note of the 22d ulto. reminded me of my omission, and I take the chance of a quiet half hour to have a little talk with you.
I have been going on in the old groove since I saw you, and the accompanying photograph taken by Willie in my room here will show you how I looked on the …

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Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1894 Apr 24., Agnes Kelly Apr 1894

Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1894 Apr 24., Agnes Kelly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

B. L. Bk., Dunbar [.Scotland],
24th April, '94.

Dear Mr. Muir:

I would sooner have thanked you for the photo of those lovely children you have so kindly sent me, but for a month or more I have been fit for nothing. Gout, rheumatism, and a lame foot have made me quite ill and not disposed to do anything but hover over the fire. So please excuse my apparent neglect, and believe that I shall value them much. It is quite a pleasure to look at such bright innocent young faces, and does one good, besides. You and your wife …

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Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1894 Apr 23., Eliza S. Hendricks Apr 1894

Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1894 Apr 23., Eliza S. Hendricks

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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611 N. Meridian St.

April 23, 1894

[in margin: Y. [A.?] Hendricks
Chico, Cal.]

My Dear Mr. Muir:

Yours of April 15 came me yesterday, and I hasten to give you my brother Thomas' address. It is Chico, Cal. It pleases me that you asked for it, for I hope you are either going to write to him, or what better, make them a visit. They are all great admirers of yours and would

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be delighted to see you. Dixie, the only daughter is a fine interesting girl. She came to the Fair two years ago, and visited …

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Letter From [Ann Gilrye Muir] Mother To John Muir, 1894 Apr 21., Ann Gilrye Muir Apr 1894

Letter From [Ann Gilrye Muir] Mother To John Muir, 1894 Apr 21., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I would be much pleased to have your Family make us folks a visit I think

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we would all enjoy a visit very much and probably they would. I hope some one will write soon

Affectionately

Mother

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Portage April 21st 1894

Dear John

I write to congratulate you on this your birthday wishing you and all your household much happiness.
I received your letter of April 3d telling us, you had finished your first book, and had five other books to write. I am afraid that such close and long application to writing will affect …

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Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1894 Apr 20., Charles Sprague Sargent Apr 1894

Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1894 Apr 20., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., April, 20, 189

My dear Mr. Muir:

I am safely at home again after various experiences in Southern California, Arizona, etc. where most of our energies were devoted to learning distinguish a Walnut from an Ash-tree. I do not feel at all sure that we shall be able, to do this successfully until we can have the advantage of another lesson from you on the subject. Possibly when we make that trip to the Sierras together or to India you will be able to set me straight in this matter
Bad weather and …

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Letter From [Harry Fielding Reid] To John Muir, 1894 Apr 18., Harry Fielding Reid Apr 1894

Letter From [Harry Fielding Reid] To John Muir, 1894 Apr 18., Harry Fielding Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

April 18, 1894

My dear Mr. Muir,

I wish I were sending you my completed memoir on my Glacier bay work, but I have unfortunately another in good working condition this winter, and it is still unfinished. There are one or two questions I should like to ask you about that again. Ben told me that some glacier (which was it?) in Taylor or Dundas bay was advancing when you were then in 1879. I should like to

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know more about this as it is so near the glacier of Glacier bay, & these have certainly been receding …

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1894 Apr 16 Katie Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell Apr 1894

1894 Apr 16 Katie Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

April 16 1894

Dear friend Mr. Muir

I thank you very much for your letter to me, on the meadow larks and it has assisted very much in our efforts to save the singing birds of California. The letter was read before the Sportsmen’s Convention where I think it did better work than thing else. I suppose you have read in the newspapers that the Sportsmen’s Convention has recommended the complete prohibition of the slaughter of singing and insectivorous birds. Again

"thanking you for your noble letter I remain

Your sincere friend

Katie Hittell

808 Turk St

April 16th

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Contract Between John Muir And A.B. Coleman, April 11, 1894, John Muir Apr 1894

Contract Between John Muir And A.B. Coleman, April 11, 1894, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez April 11, 1894. An agreement between J. Muir party of the first part and A.B. Coleman party of the second part. The party of the first part agrees to furnish one active gas plant and pay the sum of two thousand and dollars for same if satisfactory, the party of the second part to run same and perform all work necessary there to, and shall pay the party of the first part ten % interest per annum on the sum of three thousand dollars, and one third of all money remaining at the close of the year. The party …

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Letter From M[Argaret] H[Ay] Lunam To John Muir, 1894 Apr 9., Margaret Hay Lunam Apr 1894

Letter From M[Argaret] H[Ay] Lunam To John Muir, 1894 Apr 9., Margaret Hay Lunam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Westfield, Dunbar,
April 9th, '94.

My dear Cousin John:

It does seem a long time since we heard from each other, but do not think we are in the least forgetting you. We are constantly talking about you, and wondering how you are progressing with your editorship of Picturesque California. It was very kind of you sending us the January no. We did enjoy reading it, also the views. Mrs. Kelly has a reading of it. She showed it to the Minister of Prestonkirk, who thought much of it. We also had in due time the very large paper of …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1894 Apr 8., Gifford Pinchot Apr 1894

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1894 Apr 8., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York City, April 8, 1894.

Dear Mr. Muir:

I have felt for a long time that I owed you a report of progress, and I have very often meant to write, and as often felt uncomfortable because I had not done so. It is not because I have in any degree forgotten your kindness and interest in my work, or the advice you gave me to take time to get rich. I have kept that phrase pretty constantly in mind, and have been trying to live up to it. Not with any conspicuous success, as yet, but the chances …

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Letter From Edw. L. Greene To John Muir, 1894 Apr 6., Edw L. Greene Apr 1894

Letter From Edw. L. Greene To John Muir, 1894 Apr 6., Edw L. Greene

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

6 April, 1894

Dear Mr. Muir.

Responsiviely to your request of the other day, I am sending you by express an octavo parcel. Of the Bay Region Manual I have enclosed twop copies, which you are to receive as one. That in paper [illegible] matches, in size, the "Pittmia" and "Flora Franciscana" volumes; and in this whole [illegible]--or at least, in the appearance they make on the shelf, all in a row, when recently bound--I take some pride! Parts IV & V of the Flora Franciscana I hope to complete next year.

Yours very Faithfully

Edw. L. Gr[ane?]

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Apr 3., John Muir Apr 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Apr 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: [Prof?] F[illegible]

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Martinez, April 3, 1894

My dear Mr Johnson

The book, begotten Heaven knows when is finished and out of me, therefore Hurra etc. and thanks to you, very friend, for benevolent prodding. Six of the sixteen chapters are new, and the others are nearly so, for I have worked hard on every one of them, leaning them against each other, adding lots of new stuff, and killing adjectives and adverbs of redundant growth--the verys, intenses, gloriouses, ands and buts--by the score. I feel sure the little alpine thing will not disappoint you. Anyhow I've done …

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Letter From Alfred Stebbins To John Muir, 1894 Apr 1., Alfred Stebbins Apr 1894

Letter From Alfred Stebbins To John Muir, 1894 Apr 1., Alfred Stebbins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Berkeley Apr. 1 '94

John Muir, Esq:

Poet, Philosopher

Scientist, ec.

My dear Sir:

I have been looking anxiously to see you down this way for a month or so. But Keith thinks he has frightened you so you dare not come.
It was not that I wished to consult you on the "Over-Soul" or to hear you discourse upon Glaciers. but a much less trivial matter but all important to the parties concerned.
My son Elwyn graduates

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at the Institute of Technology of Boston, the last of May.
He has planned to make a camping trip to …

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Letter From William B. Harrington To John Muir, 1894 Mar 27., William B. Harrington Mar 1894

Letter From William B. Harrington To John Muir, 1894 Mar 27., William B. Harrington

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Mch 27 1894

John Muir Esp

My dea Sir:

I am requested by the Committee on the Congress on Literature which Congress is to hold sessions at Golden Gate [Mall?] in the city, on the 20" 21" 23d 24" and 25th April next to extend to you an invitation to send a paper on the "Literature [of?] Nature" at the evening session on Wednesday Apr 25".
If from any reason you should be unable to send

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yourself, the paper shall be intrusted to a competent person for delivery.
The length of the paper is as you …

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Letter From John Muir To [David] Douglas, 1894 Mar 22., John Muir Mar 1894

Letter From John Muir To [David] Douglas, 1894 Mar 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Copied from a Journal of Mr. David Douglas, Edinburgh]
[Original in possession of Miss S. B. Douglas, Edinburgh]

Martinez, California,
March 22, 1894.

My dear Mr. Douglas:

I thank you for Dorothy's Tour of Scotland. It Is a wonderful book, wonderful in simplicity and loving wisdom, and what a fins, near, clear light it casts on her great brother and Coleridge and Scotland. I have been pegging away at a book, the one we spoke of, ever sines I got home, and it is nearly finished. I have written five new chapters and recast the material you saw. If it …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Mar 21., John Muir Mar 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Mar 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 21, 1894,

My dear Mr Johnson.

I'm sorry to learn through the notice you sent me that Mr Osborne is dead. Never shall I forget the day spent at their beautiful home on the Hudson hills into which you led me. Please convey to Mrs. Osborne my kindest rememberances when next you see her.
I spent two pleasant days a week or two ago with Sargent & Canby They spent a night at our house and I drove them through the Pecheco and an Ignacio Valleys in search of trees This of course brought back the grand days …

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1894 Mar 14 C H Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell Mar 1894

1894 Mar 14 C H Hittell To Jm P1, Catherine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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March 14th 1894

Dear friend Mr. Muir,

Some months ago when I had the pleasure of meeting you at Mrs. John Vance Cheney’s house I heard you make a most eloquent defense of nearly all Nature’s lower creations even including the noxious rattle snake. That speech of yours gives me the courage to write to you asking your help to save the meadow larks. The markets are full of the poor plucked bodies of those beautiful songsters. (At most of the French restaurants, at present, a dish

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