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1 Stanford University, 18 May, 1901. Mr John Muir, Martinez: Dear Friend: Here is a good fellow who wishes to draw
you for McClure's Magazine, the owners and promoters of which are former students of mine and honorable men. I tell him that
very likely you may wine at the ordeal. In the good old times they used to draw and quarter: Now most of them draw without
quarter. I do not wish to be implicated in the plot, and I have warned Mr