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in margin: Im writing on forests with reference to their preservation - am writing book about them. See articles in Atlantic
monthly for Nov. Dec. earlier numbers. Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky Delaware back to Boston. Next day after arrival off
to Montreal by Albany Lake George down by Lake Champlain, Burlington, the Green Mtns, Smugglers Notch, White Mtns, Portland,
Maine. Thence to Bangor up by Moosehead Lake to Quebec. Thence back to Boston, - to New York up the Hudson - spent a few days
in the hills about Wing Wing when we talked over our Alaska trip in which you were not forgotten. Thence into the Berkshire
Hills with Gilder thence to Wilmington, Baltimore, Washington, driving out eight or ten miles at each of these places to see
the park woods. Thence to St Augustine, Miami, Key West, Marquesas Keys, Palatka, Gainesville, Cedar Keys, Live Oak etc. Thence
to Mobile to get a glimpse for a few days of the grand magnolia forests there thence home by New Orleans. You will see that
this was a tree trip does not count on friends visits But I devoutly hope next will be better Remember me to the boys believe
me Ever Cordially Yours John Muir