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letterhead WAUKESHA, WIS., Feb. 17. 1909 John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. My Dear old friend; I so address you, as
an old friend of our school days of the university. Mr. John Howitt has just called on me and shown me your late letter to
him and for your kindly remembrance of me therein mentioned? I most sincerely thank you. I have often been prompted to write
to you, and especially after reading some of your graphic descriptions of nature scenery as found in various articles which
have come to my notice. I have always read such with intense pleasure, and when reading them there always comes up before
me the visit of our younger days, when we took our botanical trips around the lakes and woods of illegible county. What delight
we illegible to experience in the haunts of the forests where we would meet with a new flower or some fossil among the rocks.
I have yet the botanical specimens I there gathered, but the busy days of years past have prevented me from increasing them.
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