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1 2639 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, October 19, 1905. Dear Mr. Muir: I fear you will hardly believe me when I protest
my solicitude about you and my sympathy with you in all these months of trial and suffering, and yet now for the first time
write to you. It seems impossible even that I should never have heard a lisp that anything had gone wrong with you - other
than Helen's weakness - until late in August, when I was in the thick of work at the opening of college, and you were all
away in Arizona Yet so it veritably was. I was so shocked and dazed, especially at my surprising ignorance of my 03643
2 friends' condition - and utterly unable in my hurry and in the extra load of home cases caused by Mrs. Bradley's illness,
to find anything adequate to say to you, that I have e'en kept silence till now. I am in no better case to write you now,
so far as that goes; but in answer to my frequent inquiries about you all at the Garrison? house, I learn that health and
strength are returning both to you and to Helen; and so I judge that you may be better able to deal with my very tardily-spoken
sympathy. Tardily spoken it is, my dear friend, but not tardily felt, so soon as I knew what blow it was that had fallen
upon you. I recall the gracious presence and kind reception which I 03643