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3 offset my mild criticism. Do not answer this note; I realize the value of your time, but tell John what there is to be
said about pigeon vs. pidgeon let me sign myself. Your friend and admirer and well wisher Mary L. Swett Hill Girl, Nov.
11, 1912 1 Nov 11 12 Dear Mr. Muir, I have never got hold of anything more absorbingly interesting than these type
written pages and they will be read as classics by posterity. But now I want you to take pity on my ignorance and tell me
when and where the spelling of pigeon was changed to pidgeon, for it must be there has been an authoritative change or neither
you nor the typewriter would use it 05298