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6 99 Another extract from a later letter of Mrs. Alex. Forbes Thank you for the kind allusion to my words about John
Muir's Mountains of California. I do not remember what they were, but I am sure they were in appreciation, however poorly
expressed, of his wonderful pictures of natural scenery and animal life and instincts. I would have given anything for a volume
with his autograph on the fly-leaf, and, now I think of it, at the risk of being counted among the autograph fiends of which
I am not one, I will ask 01994