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way serve yourself box send all the rest to Sarah, Care of D G Muir Portage. Do not pay the expressage on anything. , what
expense you are at debt to me or draw on Dave - I do not expect that Mr Suther- land will charge anything for store room.
As they told me when I left that they would not be in the way agreed to keep them for me Mrs S has the key of my trunk John
Muir Yosemite Valley California (Via Coulterville) I hope that you will never allow yourself to be pinched for money again
if I can get any for you. Farewell, I cannot come to you. I am bound to the mountains. but, anear or afar am ever yours in
family love John Muir 4 1871 Yosemite Nov 1st Dear Brother M illegible I am glad to hear of your successes comforts
present, past, prospective, but am sorry that you so much need money at a time that I cannot collect any for you. You might
have had three or four hundred now if you had let me know sooner. I have written at least three letters to you ere I recd
this one relative to the hundred dollar note. I think that you are right about co illegible ating. I will now be spending
money without making much, as I have commenced the work of making a book for the Boston Academy of Sciences on the Ancient
Glacial System of the Merced, wh will occupy my time for several years. Still I will make a few dollars in summer 1