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Indianapolis, April 10 1893 Mr John Muir: Martinez, Cal. My dear Friend: A few weeks since I received, through the
kindness of Mrs Graydon, your instructive and illegible fully illustrated Picturesque California inscribed to me by your own
hand. I have been busy of late in preparing and perfecting Worlds Fair Exhibits; and for the first time since we were fellow
workmen have been sick for a week or mon.? These things have kept me from promptly acknowledging the receipt of your book
But I must say that none of these things have kept me from reading it and admiring? its wonderfully realistic illustrations.
I thank you for it and prize it very highly, both because of its merit and particularly, I think, because the work is edited
by one who was once a fellow-laborer with myself. I often think of you, and Mrs Riley and I often speak of you. Your name
is a house hold word with us. The world has travelled on at a great rate in the twenty five years since you and I made wheels
together, and 01649