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CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER, Editor-in-Chief, HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE. LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE, GEORGE H. WARNER, Associate Editors.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE, EDITORIAL ROOMS, 91 93 FIFTH AVENUE. J. A. HILL CO., Publishers. CABLE: TITIMALO,
NEW YORK. NEW YORK, January 21s, 1897 John Muir Esq. Martinez, Cal. Dear Mr. Muir:- I have your letter of January
14th, with the photograph enclosed, which I shall use in the article headed by your name, and I will ask the Century Company
to give their consent to the use of the chapter. Now, as to the article on Linnaeus, your letter gives exactly the impression
that we would like to have in the book. We do not need a long dissertation on Linnaeus, or on science, but we would like to
have just such a warm expression of admiration as you can give without books, chart or compass. Supposing it is not more than
700 or a thousand words, it will be ample to introduce such selections as we can have made here out of Linnaeus's books, by
some one who reads Swedish. Mrs. Warner and I came upon the Linnaea -borealis on a trip through Northern Sweden, and were
perfectly enchanted, and when we saw Linnaeus's perfectly serene and beautiful statue in Stockholm we were more enchanted
still. I shall hope to get this little tribute to Linnaeus from you in the course of a few weeks. Don't say no. We will supply
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