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2 Mifflin Company might have to print an emergency edition to fill the gap - which they illegible illegible loath to do.
I have been bringing the book? up to the 1910 edition of the A.O.U. check list in no illegible elature and ranges? , and hope
that it will be a better tool to the young workers. I was greatly interested, some months ago, to get the letters you wrote
my Father from the Yosemite, after his visit there. I suppose they were published in the Tribune but I have not found copies
of them. 1 1834 KALORAMA ROAD, WASHINGTON, D.C. Feb. 8, 1914. My dear Mr. Muir; I am almost ashamed to write you
after enjoying your Christmas box all these weeks in silence. But my reason is one that you will illegible ertain charitably,
I hope. I have been working day and night on a version? of my H illegible of Birds, knowing that if I stopped to attend to
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