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3. If you succeed in satisfying yourself with this article, it may be that it would not be out of place, after all, in the
proposed California number, in case you did not hit upon something else which you would prefer to contribute to that issue
of the magazine. It all depends, of course, upon the shape which this particular article takes in your mind, and I hope that
as you think it over you may be happily inspired. Faithfully yours, illegible John Muir, Esq. 03071 illegible