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1 Arden Orange County New York October 28t 1899 Dear Mr. Muir The reason that the G.Q. have not answered your
letter was that we hesitated to attempt to cope with your overflowing poetical genious, and felt that we would? all wait until
we assembled and put our wits together to reply. A handwriting 02637 2 sharp? would revel in the incongruity of the
styles but we hardly dare to hope that such a well-rounded, published and glaciated poet will take the same delight, now you
are in for it, will have to read with patience this lenghty document. Your deadly enemy , John Bourroughs, has been here,
and has won us all over to his side, so you will surely have to come east post haste, to counteract 02637 3 his bad
influence. He did give me a beautiful start on one line of nature, and which I am surely going to follow up, especially after
your advice. You certainly converted us all in that respect but Dr. Converse seems to have run in the wrong directon wonder
why? Perhaps because the glacier chill had seized you he thought Beth is so witty that it quite overpowers a plain ordi-
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