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letterhead Nov 29 1913 300 W. 72d St. Society for the Conservation of National Parks, Mr John Muir Prest I thank
your society for literature about Hetchy Bill c I have been in the valley and several other times in California. I have written
earnestly to President Wilson to Senator Root, both of whom I know personally, urging the preservation of H Hetchy and have
also urged many others to do the same. This is a commercial age. The beautiful temples of Egypt and the East, the Alpine glories
of Switzerland, the falls of Niagara have all become the prey of the materialist the merchant. I (over) 05619