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request. I am therefore ready to do anything that you think will assure the success of our plans. I have spoken to a number
of persons and feel sure that, if our dues are not made too high, we can open with a membership of twenty or twenty-five,
enough for a nucleus. I have corresponded with the officers of the Alpine Club of Portland, and they will do all in their
power to help us. I write now mainly to ask whether you think it would be better to call a meeting at once, or whether you
consider it more advisable to wait until after the summer vacation, meanwhile interesting as many persons as possible in the
idea. I send you in this mail a little work that I have lately reprinted. I hope that you will like it. Yours very sincerely,
Wm. Dallam Armes.