Martinez, March 27. 1899. My dear Mr Gilder Muir I shall be very glad to call on Mrs Foote? the first time Im in the
city tell her the Berkshire Hills story with all its blessed Gilders glaciers. This will be a job after my own heart. Sargent
sent me word that you were writing a book on Brook farms glaciers. Send me the icy stanzas you have written after striking
out the semi humor making the semi serious whole it must be a blank shame for a poet to write disrespectfully of glaciers
even bucolic or agricultural glaciers. I thank you for your kind suggestions about Recollections of a Naturalist . Possibly
I may try something of the sort some of these days though my life on the whole has been level uneventful therefore hard