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letterhead Nov 21st 1902 My Dear Mr. Muir I recently read your article on the Grand Canon diacritic of the Colorado
and am prompted thereby to write you, expressive of my appreciation of your description of that wonderful scene. I am free
to confess that I never read a descriptive article before, that compares with it, not even in Walter Scott's writings which
I have always considered unequalled in that line But yours excells everything- so that I hardly knew which to admire most-
the grandeurs of the subject or the masterly way in which it is pictured to the reader. It is certainly a prose poem of the
highest order. and I hope you will be long spared to enrich the public with such productions that at least you will be able
to finish the books you had under consideration when we were with you last spring. This description of the Grand Canon diacritic
has an added interest to us, in as much as you were working on it when we were there, and we interrupted you a great deal
in your work I wonder how you all are in the Alhambra Valley- Mrs. Muir was in poor health. I trust the summer has been the
means of improving it- and that Helen and Wanda were off on a tour with you as they were a year ago and that they, and you,
had close contact with nature in her grandest scenes- I noticed your discovery of a hitherto unknown group of Sequoia Gigantica
which overtops all previous known specimens- What a wonderful country that is. David I suppose has been fighting the pest
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