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4 prefers sleeping outside - in the woods - if we can escape either heavy snow or heavy rain. We don't want luxuries or
even civilized comforts: just facilities for a fire over which I can cook; water, a roof. We'd like to be within five miles
or so of a neighbor or a R. F. D. route; so that we can get mail once a week. Do you know of any such place, Mr. Muir? Or
of a camping place, perhaps in one of those exquisite meadows you describe, 1 1323 Wilcox Avenue, Hollywood, Calif.
Aug. 25-13 My dear Mr. Muir:- The questions I am going to ask you will, I know, secure from you their own answer, without
further introduction; but I am nevertheless going to explain that I am the niece of former Secretary-of-the-Interior, Gen.
John W. Noble to whom, I believe, you dedicated one of your beautiful true books. Now for the questions: Can you tell me where
I, with my brother, can winter safely in the great woods of California? 05519