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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 2 of some of these noble trees? I have made a contract with Houghton, Mifflin Company for The new tree
book and Faxon has been hard at work on the illustrations for the last three months. It will take him, I suppose, a couple
of years to make the six hundred drawings. They are going to be beauties and I hope the book will prove useful. I have got
lots of other schemes on hand but illegible sadly lacking in time and strength to do all I ought to accomplish during the
next ten years. Write often to your faithful friend, illegible John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. 02696