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3 one in the L.O. had tacked on, for convenience of description I have today received a letter from Judge Holman of the
House Committee saying that the bill will be reported this week to the House. The effort will be to put it through by unanimous
consent as the Tulare bill was. In the Senate Plumb, chairman of the Land Committee, will push it along as soon as it comes
over from the House. So it is in good shape for passage at this session. I wish you could arrange to come East this winter,
you and your wife, and pay us a little visit. Burroughs was to have been here this week to visit us but the wet weather detained
him to harvest his grapes. Come you shall see him the saucy Mrs. Johnson. I am eager to get a line from you. I heard of you
the other day from Mrs. Rothis? , whom I know. I hope she wont anticipate your new material. These literary people, you know
Call your articles Alaska Revisited. Gilder is charmed with the Yosemite sketches. Sometime you'll want to collect Yellowstone,
Yosemite, Alaska others in a book of Wonderland Sketches 4 -- By the way, have you ever written about the Yellowstone?
Tell Mrs. Muir not to let you backslide from the literary life. You have taken your hand off the plow and should not look
back. We want to print the King's River Canon diacritic Swett's sketch of you together, in a number of the Century in which
the '49 series is not specially strong. Lend us a lot of photographs of you - not too much fixed up -- to choose from. Yours
faithfully, R. U. Johnson I'll send you a copy of what I write in reply to Irish. 01459