1 Dear Mr Muir, I dont know how I could let all these weeks of silence pass between us since your nice note came with
the New Year. This has been a season of playtime awfully good for me in one way to have a lot of young people coming and going
but I've sadly neglected my own friends. Donald is away from home so much of the year that I have thoroughly enjoyed all his
young friends and last month we spent up to the Ojai and illegible on a camping trip for three weeks It was glorious riding
in the snow and taking wonderful auto-chromes. Donald has a steriopticon now and we revel in this colored plates direct from
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have been none too warm but clear and bracing. Donald wants to show you his photo of a blue-jay carrying another bird egg
away in its beak. He is going on with his birding in earnest this spring and will be in Ojai and on the desert. Later he goes
east for several months so I shall have another quiet summer. I was so sorry to miss Mrs Hooker's visit while we were in the
mountains and I spent a week in bed with sciatica on my return - nature trying to tell me I'm too old to be gallivanting about
so merrily but I shall not listen to such lies and expect to visit my beloved pines as long as I have breath I trust. Have
you kept warm and cared for? As usual I know you are busy and working. I do not worry over that brain of yours but wish the
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