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3 all of a most appreciative hearing, and as to yourself I want to say again that I think it a most favorable time and place
to assist in working up a sentiment in favor of placing the control of the Yosemite Valley in the same hands with that of
the National Park - following your own suggestion. Owing to the high standard of the membership of the Club, I think more
can be accomplished at this meeting than perhaps in any other way And, as you know, this is a very opportune time. The usual
time of meeting is the 3rd Monday in November (the 21st) but I can easily shift this if the date is inconvenient. I should
like to know what place on the program you would prefer, as I shall arrange it entirely according to your wishes. The Club
always provides its speakers with several tickets each to be used 2 I write to ask you to do what you can, next time you
are in town, to get Mr Keith to accept. The program as I have planned it seems to me as completely harmonious and attractive
that I wish to do everything possible to carry it into effect just as it stands. We have had so much of the ultra scientific
spirit that I think it will be in everyway desirable for us to get back to the untechnical - the poetic or humanitarian standpoint
- at least for a change. I intend this program, in one aspect, as a stand against surrendering the Club, on the one hand
to the intensely practical fellows, and, on the other hand to the professors and other devotees of technics. I need not stop
to assure you