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illegible Martinez, Cal., April 3,1909. Dear Mr. Johnson: You have had no response to your many good, wise letters of
late because my daughter Helen has been very sick in a hospital in Los Angeles with some sort of typhoid fever. She is now,
I am happy to say, rapidly convalescing and we hope that she will soon be as well as ever. In reply to your last of March
17th,I spent an evening a day or two ago with Colby and Bade, and we are unanimous (1) In applying to Secretary Ballinger
for a revocation of the grant. We do not believe that the enemy has made anything like a conquest of the Secretary, and that
the chances for a revocation are good. But if we should fail in this that (2)In accordance with your suggestions, proceedings
should be instituted to enjoin the Secretary and the Supervisors on the grounds specified in your letter. Be assured, My
Dear Johnson, that your efforts of behalf of Hetch Hetchy are enthusiastically appreciated by all of us. After you got well
you have shown all your oldtime indomitable heroism in our big battle so completely won, and in accordance with former letters
to you, I now remind you that I shall be glad to have you send me in an account of your money expenses, which I shall gladly
pay. I had a grand time with Borroughs at the Petrified Forest and the Grand Canon just before Helen's illness and in