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ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD.UNIVERSITY Jamaica Plain, Mass, February 13, 1900 My dear Muir: I am delighted to get your
letter of the 21st. Your letters always oheer and inspire me and I wish I could get more of them. I wish, too, I could go
to California this summer and see the Redwoods again hut I must stay at home and do some hard work between now and the middle
of September when I suppose I must start forth again to hunt for Crataegus. I shall certainly be able to throw a good deal
of light on the genus before I get done with it but it is giving me a lot of bother and anxiety. Still I suppose I might as
well do that as anything else, it is all in a lifetime. Why don't you arrange to pass the autumn in the east? I will show
you a country you haven't seen before and I am sure it will do us both good to have a trip together again. It is a glorious
season and everything is blooming like mad In my remembrance there has never been such a year before and the country is simply
beautiful. I am very keen about a Redwood reservation. Half a dozen rich men might get together and buy two or three hundred
thousand acres and never feel it. This I think is what we ought to work for and I am putting out a few hints which may or
may not produce results. This it seems to me is a thing well worth fighting for. Is there anything better that you and I can
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