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4 her trips to the mountains, only Patch the trouble up for the time, but the real trouble can not be removed until she
gets out of the way of malaria just as Dan says - When you wrote about Margaret improving from out door sleeping, I just thought
that would be the thing for us, for we all have too much nerves, and not enough of God's good fresh air and sunshine, I guess
we will all have to finish up by coming to California for a year or two any way - With love to yourself and all the folks,
I am lovingly Your sister Joanna Address, Mrs L. W. Brown 155 Douglas Ave Port Norfolk Virginia 1 Oct. 30. 1908
Dear brother John: - I have just been reading a long article in the Detroit Tribune, which a friend of mine living in that
city has recently sent me, entitled How a Chicago Alderman saved a redwood forest. Doubtless, you know what it is, as it goes
on to discribe the John Muir Woods, how it came to be so named etc etc - Of course I soon recognized this forest with its
stream and canon and wonderful redwood trees as the same described in the Outlook a year or more ago, which you had saved
from the City of San Fran. for a water supply ? Park etc - 04311