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letterhead Jany 23d 1907 Hotel St John, San Jose- Cal Dear John Muir. I send the first part of my experiences and
would ask you to look over it: and tell one what you think about it. Do not hesitate to tell me that it is a failure if you
think so. I have not made up my mind what I will do with it, or whether I will do anything with it, but will get it into shape
as I need something to occupy my time. There is a man in Seattle who intends to start an? Alask Magazine and he has all the
clippings as they appeared in the Nome nugget last winter; and wants to publish them as a illegible erial study? . He says
that the first number will be out about the first of March, but I think it doubtful if it will be out so soon. What I send
you is very different from what appeared in print. I wrote to William S illegible y after I had seen you and told him that
I was going back to Chicago; and would be there in a month; and was going straight to see my wife and family. I got a letter
from him about a week ago telling me I had better go around by Texas and call on his son Walter and then go to Florida and
see Edward and then New York where he was sure that my eldest son would be glad to see me. I could then call at Buffalo, Torento
, Meaford, Detroit, and Milwaukee, but by all means stay away from Chicago. He said that my wife has long passed herself off
as a widow and it would make a terrible sensation if I should show up alive. He and his daughter went to see her New year's
day, and she stormed around in a frightful manner when he told her I was coming and said that it would never do that I must
not come back it would ruin everything illegible 03824