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2 (9) A sheet of very short extracts from press notices, to be scattered broadcast a most promising plan. And we must keep
personal letters flying in a countrywide storm thick as snowflakes about the President's head the Senator's. Referring to
your last letter Oct 11- I can't believe Leavitt or any engineer can accomplish anything like a snuffing out of the San Francisco
20 year old Hetch Hetchy scheme now that the fight for it is hottest Landscape architects like Olmstead say three or four
visiting the Valley especially under the auspices of the President his Cabinet, would I think insure a veto. The time is short
however to get a commission here before the season of winter storms. After all we have to depend on wide-awake enlightened
public opinion I'm glad you Osborn are planning large committee public meetings of societies etc. We are getting our Sierra
Club thoroughly awakened at last.