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letterhead Ogden, Utah, May 28. 1904 Mr. John Muir My dear Sir:- Please pardon me for intruding upon your time and
attention. I have a son of fifteen who fairly lives upon your beautiful, breezy books and the out door experiences with which
you have been blessed. He, too, has climbed the mountains all alone and has left his bed at midnight to look down oer storms
below. So few boys care for real roughing 03360 2 letterhead it and it has occurred to me you might be willing to
put me in touch with some party or parties making outing trips this summer and that I might pay his part of expense c? and
give references of his character and we could enter the woods as climb the mountains. He is intensely interested in Scientific
Forestry and a tree he would protect above every thing I understand some people would consider my boy a nuisance 03360