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1 letterhead Oct. 30 1894 Dear Mr. Muir: I am very glad to see that your book is out at last. Congratulate you upon
the appearance of your first independent volume. Wish it were the last of a dozen, as it should be. It is too bad that so
much splendid literary material as you have accumulated should be entirely unpublished or in unavailable back volumes of newspapers,
etc. I trust that the demand for this volume will lead to the publishing 01864