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indispensable to your writing: intelligently about your early work and that you wish them, he would give them. I return his
letter herewith. I have long felt, my dear Muir, that you ought now to enter upon a systematic effort to put down on paper
the most important work that you have done in the field. The most attractive form to do this in is memoirs and, of course,
these letters would much help you both in themselves and in stimulating' your memory. The time is passing with us all and
I have just sent to the Safe Deposit two trunks full of letters, besides all my press copybooks, so that the mass of my materials
is reasonably safe from fire. Faithfully yours, ILLEGIBLE 04262