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Letter From Elliiott Mcallist To John Muir, 1894 Mar 12., Elliiott Mcallist Mar 1894

Letter From Elliiott Mcallist To John Muir, 1894 Mar 12., Elliiott Mcallist

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 12th 1894

My dear Mr. Muir

The Sierra Club should arrange for a public meeting early in April--& I read of the presence of Prof. Sargent on the coast. Do you think he could give us a talk on the subject of forests or something kindred - All this but just occurred to me & I write for your suggestions as to Prof. Sargent & to a meeting in general & whether you have any suggestions as to who culd be called on.

Yours truly

Elliot McAllister

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[in margin: Could we have a Directors meeting next Saturday?]

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Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1894 Mar 5., Helen S. Wright Mar 1894

Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1894 Mar 5., Helen S. Wright

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 5, 1894

Dear Mr. Muir,

Let me thank you first of all for your cordial reply to my letter. It was a pleasure to have something bring a word from you. How I wish you could come to San Jose, with the wife and babies we (I at least) have never seen!
We have finally settled down to the conclusion that is is better to pay Jessie Norton's expenses for one term only, and try to get work for her after that. So if she chooses to come back to finish the course here, she may be able …

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Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To John Muir, 1894 Mar 4., Joanna Muir Brown Mar 1894

Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To John Muir, 1894 Mar 4., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage Wis.

March 4, 1894

Dear brother John:

I have been long in answering your kind New Year letter but that does not mean that I did not appreciate it for I was very glad to receive a letter from you again.
You asked how Walter was getting along, and I have been waiting to be able to write some good news about him, and although

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Annie keeps on foot wonderfully. Sarah has not been well since Christmas but is feeling considerably better lately.
I have not heard of anything new from your pen of late. Are you …

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Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1894 Mar 1., Eliza S. Hendricks Mar 1894

Letter From Eliza S. Hendricks To John Muir, 1894 Mar 1., Eliza S. Hendricks

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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for the advanced chapters in the Century. I very much enjoyed a series of letters you once wrote for the San [Yo?] Examiner upon Alaska. Do you remember a Mrs. Wells and her husband whom you met the evening we spent at Mrs. Graydon's You will be sorry to hear that she lost her husband last summer. She is very sad. She was much pleased to meet you, and was much interested in your talk that evening. I think your book will do her good.
The kind remarks you penned in your last letter regarding our home, were very …

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

33: East: 17th: St. (UNION SQUARE)
NEW-YORK. N. Y.

February 28, 1894.

My dear Mr. Muir,

We have just received the inclosed letter from the Board of Education at Sacramento.
We usually give permits of this sort where they do not wish to use too much material, and we consent in this case if you are willing. If their selection is from matter to be included by you in your forthcoming volume it might help its sale. Perhaps it will save time if you will write directly to …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 24., John Muir Feb 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Feb. 24, 1894

My dear Mr Johnson

In my haste yesterday to get off the Alaska M. S. I forgot the maps. I have no good map of the territory, Glacier Bay, or the Muir Glacier, but you can get all those through Miss S[cud?]more. A general sketch map of Alaska may easily be found, but the only maps for Glacier Bay & the Muir Glacier are those of Prof. Harry Fielding Reid. He worked two summers with good instruments borrowed from the Coast Survey in making them. I think they were published by the Appletons. You can easily …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 23., John Muir Feb 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 23. 1894

My dear Mr Johnson,

I send you today by Express the Alaskan M.S. reconstructed & hope it will now please you. I have made a distinct article of the trip part another of Glacier Bay. The Indian part I have left out altogether as is seemed a pity to mar the effect of the Discovery article. It is a far cry from ice to Indian & the latter I think should make a third article, should you think otherwise you can easily splice it on, as I have enclosed it in a separate envelope.
Should you …

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Letter From W. H. V, Raymond To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 19., W. H. V. Raymond Feb 1894

Letter From W. H. V, Raymond To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 19., W. H. V. Raymond

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Feb. 19, 1894

The Century Co.

New York.

Gentlemen:

I write to ask your permission to use, as a Reading Lesson in the California Readers, 42 inches of matter from John Muir's description of the water Ousel and the Douglas Squirrel in the Scribner Magazine of 13 to 15 years ago. I trust it will be agreeable to you to give the permission.

Yours truly,

W. H. V Raymond.

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Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Feb 18., Charles Walter Carruth Feb 1894

Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Feb 18., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Feb. 18 1894

Dear Mr. Muir:

Remittance received. Many thanks. Trust and think you will find the pamphlets all right.
I am delighted to hear that you are at work on a book. If not preseumption on my part I would be glad to know what it is to be and who puts it out (I do not mean extinguishes it--that would be an impossibility once it is "out") When you have it finished and want to try the effect of it upon the public, let me know and i will be glad to come up and pass the …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Feb 17., Frank H. Scott Feb 1894

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Feb 17., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

THE: CENTURY: CO: PUBLISHERS:

33: East:17th: St:(UNION SQUARE)
New-York. N.Y.

February 17, 1894

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Your letter of the 9th is received, and we are glad to know that you are getting on so well with the book. Our idea would be to make a volume of a moderate size, to sell at somewhere from $l.00 to $l.50, and the number of words you mention, a hundred thousand to a hundred and thirty thousand, will be ample. Indeed, for a book of this size, other things being …

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Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Feb 12., Charles Walter Carruth Feb 1894

Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Feb 12., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Feb. 12 1894

Dear Mr. Muir,

I send by today's express the "Sequoia" the Rest of Writings. Many thanks for your kindness in not prodding me up for my delay in getting them out. I ran into a little snarl of work, and am just getting out of the woods. It is quite a pleasure to have a crowd of work just now I can assure you.
Have had a number of Sonnets which I sent to the Atlantic returned with thanks. Of course it was rank presumption on my part to send to this august periodical, and I …

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Letter From Annie L. Muir To John Muir, 1894 Feb 9., Annie L. Muir Feb 1894

Letter From Annie L. Muir To John Muir, 1894 Feb 9., Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage, Wis., Feb. 9th, '94.

My dear Brother John:

Time does indeed fly very "fastly" and I have not accomplished nearly as much as I had intended to before this date. We have enjoyed mild pleasant weather with very little frost or snow since the 21st of December. But this day is what mother calls a genuins "February fill the dyke" day. It is snowing and blowing and drifting about in true February style, and how the dogs are enjoying it, chasing and tumbling and frolicking about, as if it were exactly to their taste.
A recent letter from Ette …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1894 Feb 9., Robert Underwood Johnson Feb 1894

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1894 Feb 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 9th, 1894.

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

John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

I have carefully gone over your manuscript of the Alaska trip, which as you know we expect to print in two articles, and it seems to me that as it stands you have the two articles, but it is not quite sufficiently organized to enable us to divide the material. I therefore suggest that you rearrange what is written into two parts, one to be called "The Alaska Trip", to be a travel article addressed …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 7., John Muir Feb 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Feb 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Feb. 7th 1894

My dear Mr Johnson

Many thanks for the set of articles, I have two copies of the windstorm so that is all right.
Thanks too Tesla review we'll be delighted to see him.
You say you fear nick and Irish will be after me. It is not at all likely that they will cross my path in this mountain business, for neither of those gentlemen every go above the timberline.
The book is half done. Am rewriting a good deal. Glad you like the plan. Ever truly thine

John Muir

Bankcroft Library

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Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To John Muir, 1894 Feb 4., Mary Muir Hand Feb 1894

Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To John Muir, 1894 Feb 4., Mary Muir Hand

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Kearny, Nebr.

Feb. 4. / 94.

My dear Brother John;

Your holiday letter and card came to me and was greatly enjoyed, not so much enjoyed not as a visit would have been, but as you could not arrange to come our way, the next best was a letter from you.
Your recent long trip must have been grand indeed, both from what you write and the home people write, and mother must have been very grateful for all the pleasant news you brought from her long loved home in Scotland. She sent me a tartan kerchief at Christmas time …

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Letter From Margaret Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1894 Jan 30., Margaret Hay Lunam Jan 1894

Letter From Margaret Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1894 Jan 30., Margaret Hay Lunam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Westfield, Dunbar,
Jan. 30,'94.

My dear Cousin:

We have been very delighred with the two letters we have had from you after your arrival at your own happy bright sunny Californian home. While you seem to be rejoicing in balmy fine weather, we are in the midst of very severe cold wintry weather --to-day a hurricane of bitter wind, snow, and sleet. I am sure it can be no worse up at the North Pole amongst the icebergs. I am wearying for better weather, as the rheumatics are bad in my old gouty hand. We were very sorry to learn …

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Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1894 Jan 29., Agnes Kelly Jan 1894

Letter From Agnes Kelly To John Muir, 1894 Jan 29., Agnes Kelly

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

B.L.C. Bank, Dunbar [Scotland],
29th Jany. 1894.

Dear Mr. Muir:

The receipt of your very nice letter was a great pleasure to us, We learn from it you had got safely back to your own happy home, though I wish you had said just a little more and told us how you found your wife and those very sweet children whose photos you showed us. Prom your silence on that subject, we conclude you found all well and delighted as you to meet again.
Thanks for the trouble you took about those papers regarding the death of Mr. Hepburn. Of …

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Our Towering Peaks And Deep Abysses., John Muir Jan 1894

Our Towering Peaks And Deep Abysses., John Muir

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

Our Towering Peaks and Deep Abysses. BY JOHN MUIR. California is rich in mountains. They lise in glorious array all around her borders, forming a long, nest-like oval, and offer grand and picturesque scenery in endless variety. At first sight, such is the massive simplicity of the topography, the*"\State seems to have only one valley—the grand central plain hemmed in bj the coast mountains and the Sierra. But with this apparent simplicity there is great complexity of hidden detail. The Coast Range, like a grand forest-crowned barrier rising against the ocean, has innumerable spurs, ridges prjd rolling;hit! v?:-.—* '' :1-**'co3,r …

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Letter From G[Eorge] B. Bayley To John Muir, 1894 Jan 27., George B. Bayley Jan 1894

Letter From G[Eorge] B. Bayley To John Muir, 1894 Jan 27., George B. Bayley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

OFFICE OF
THE SIERRA CLUB
ROOM 56,
ACADEMY OF SCIENCES BUILDING.

SAN FRANCISCO, Jan 27, l894. l89

MR. JOHN MUIR,
MARTINEZ, CAL.

DEAR SIR:-

herewith please find copy of the Resolution in re the Washington national park.
Kindly sign the name over Prof. Jordan's signature and return to me. You will see that the wording of your letter to me has been embodied in the resolution as being eminently fitting. With kind regards, I remain,

Yours truly,

G.B. Bayley

[Treasurer?]

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Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To John Muir, 1894 Jan 26., Anna Galloway Eastman Jan 1894

Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To John Muir, 1894 Jan 26., Anna Galloway Eastman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage, Wis., Jan 26, 1894.

Dear uncle John:

Here comes Kenneth to thank you for his share of your Christmas odds and ends, a nice bath-tub. You should see him, sitting all alone, splashing the water with his little dimpled hands and flirting it over on to his Grandma's carpet.
The picture, which was taken before his was six months old, does not do him justice, but it is difficult getting a photograph of so young a child.
Many thanks for my present. It is very kind in you to think of us all and we so far …

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Letter From W[Illiam] R[Andolph] Hearst To John Muir, 1894 Jan 23., William Randolph Hearst Jan 1894

Letter From W[Illiam] R[Andolph] Hearst To John Muir, 1894 Jan 23., William Randolph Hearst

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
21,000 OFFICES IN AMERICA. CABLE SERVICE TO ALL THE WORLD.

This Company TRANSMITS and DELIVERS messages only on conditions limiting its liability, which have been assented to by the sender of the following message Errors can be guarded against only by repeating a message back to the sending station for comparison, and the Company will not hold itself liable for errors or delays In transmission or delivery of Unrepeated Messages, beyond the amount of tolls paid thereon, nor in any case where the claim is not presented in writing within sixty days after the message …

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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

?1894

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Martinez, Jan 21

My dear Mr Johnson

You are very kind in promising to send us Tesla. I shall be delighted to know him. He seems to be one of a thousand thousand & more. Mrs. Muir seems to know him well already, though they have not met. She ways that he knows far more of the Lord's lightening than Edison.
I'm in no hurry for Alaska money. When is the first article coming out?
I'm pegging away at the book Send me another set of my old articles for the book if you can
Heaven grant you …

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Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1894 Jan 20., Helen S. Wright Jan 1894

Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1894 Jan 20., Helen S. Wright

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: [Miscellaneous?]
Helen Wright]

216 South 2nd St.

Jan 20, 1894

Dear. Mr. Muir,

An opportunity has come recently to do what seems like helping our old friend, Prof. Norton, through his oldest daughter. She has written to ask if there is any way in which she can get something to do to pay her way here while she finishes a normal school course, and suggests tutoring, and the like. She had one year in our school, but at her father's death went to Mills College, Mrs. Mills giving her a scholarship. She has been entirely through that course …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Jan 20., Frank H. Scott Jan 1894

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1894 Jan 20., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

33: East: 17th: St. (UNION SQUARE)
NEW-YORK. N.Y.
January 20, 1894

My dear Mr. Muir:-

I am glad to learn from your letter of the 9th that you are progressing with the work on your book, and we shall be glad to hear from you from time to time as you get on. With sincere regards, believe me

Very truly yours
[illegible]

John Muir Esq.
Martinez, Cal.

as beautiful in its silvery splendor as the moon, & as desolate looking.

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Letter From Celia J. Galloway To John Muir, 1894 Jan 18., Celia J. Galloway Jan 1894

Letter From Celia J. Galloway To John Muir, 1894 Jan 18., Celia J. Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Portage, Wisconsin,

January 18, 1894

My dear uncle John,--

Your letters and the Express Order came the other day, and we all thank you very much for the kind New Year's remembrance.
I divided the money up and gave each one their share to get for themselves what they liked best. I thought that would give more satisfaction, and you do not mind, do you?

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[3]

We are all pretty well here,--That is, we are all up and about our work as usual, thankful that we are not seriously ill, like so very many all around us.
But …

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Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Jan 17., Charles Walter Carruth Jan 1894

Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Jan 17., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jan. 17 1894

Dear Mr. Muir:

I send herewith proofs of the Sequoia article and also a couple of the little booklets of sonnets. Of course when I spoke of putting the line in regard to publishing them on the [coon?], I had no thought of referring to you, and if you care to furnish any of them to anyone for reprinting, you are at liberty to do so. Perhaps it would be policy to scatter this crop abroad that it might create a market for future productions. What think you? I presume I should have begun by begging …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Jan 12., John Muir Jan 1894

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Jan 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan 12, 1894

My dear Mr Johnson,

No doubt ere this you have been notified of your appointment on a committee of the Sierra Club to urge the passage of the bill making the Mt Rainier portion of the Pacific Forest Reserve a National Park. Go ahead as our representative & what you do we other members of the Committee will swear to--Mt Rainier is the grandest isolated icy old volcanic cones on this coast--The forest about its base are most interesting containing specimens of nearly every coniferious tree of Alaska Washington & Oregon, while an intermediate Zone above …

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Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, 1894 Jan 10., M. H. Myrick Jan 1894

Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, 1894 Jan 10., M. H. Myrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

14 Sansome Street

San Francisco, Cal.

Jany 10 1894

John Muir, Esq

Dear Sir--At that "banquet" next Monday, a number of the leading men are to be present:
Bishop Nickols, Prof. Le Conte, Dr. Stebbins, Dr. Jordan, Dr. Voursanger, the Bishop of the Methodist Church, and others--I think it is to be quite a noted affair--and hope I shall see you--

Yours

M H Myrick

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Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Jan 9., Charles Walter Carruth Jan 1894

Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1894 Jan 9., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jan. 9 1894

Dear Mr. Muir:

I send by this mail proofs of the list of published writings. It will all print on a 4-page leaflet without crowding. Trust that you will find the style of composition satisfactory. Any rearrangement, such as placing the Tribune letters in just preceding the other newspaper letters, instead of heading the list as a present can be done very readily.
If you have the essay that you contemplated reprinting ready, would be pleased to receive it.
If you have the dates on which your new articles for the The Century

will appear, would …

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Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1894 Jan 8., C. S. Sargent Jan 1894

Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1894 Jan 8., C. S. Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain Mass., January 8, 1894

My dear Mr. Muir:

Thank you. The Silva is coming on slowly. The fifth volume appeared in October and the sixth is fairly on the way. I am working hard at it in order to get it off my hands in time to pay you a visit this spring. I should have accomplished this easily if the grip had not got the best of me in December and caused me to lose nearly a month's time. However, I still want to get away, if I can, in time to see …

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