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December 4th, 1894. R.W.GILDER, EDITOR. R.U.JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C.C. BUEL,ASSISTANT EDITOR. My dear Muir:-
I have obeyed your injunctions to send copies of your book to the friends who were courteous to us last year. I have included
Mrs. Fields, Miss Jewett, Col. Higgins on and Mrs. Sargent. These four copies have been charged to your account. A copy of
Mr. Gilder's book and of the new volume of The Century Dictionary are also en route. I also send you copy of your article
on The Discovery of Glacier Bay so that you may add the part about the Muir Glacier and keep the article from being thrown
out of bal ance , as you say. My theory of it is that it is out of bal ance now because you are too modest to talk about the
Muir Glacier. This might be of a descriptive character and need not be more than a thousand words. Then if you wish, Mr.
Gilder would be glad to have you write another article, as you suggest, of five or six thousand words called Adventures on
the Muir Glacier ; but let the latter be adventures with only incidental descriptions. In other words, put the descriptive
part into the Glacier Bay article and let the adventures go by themselves. And then we 01887