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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 2 make the party complete, and in such a journey you would see more trees in five minutes than you would
all summer on the shores of Prince Williams Sound and Cook's Inlet. I do not see why you should feel any special surprise
or pleasure at having a volume of The Silva dedicated to you. For if there is any man who loves and knows trees, and knows
how to write about them better than anybody else, you are the fellow. Let me hear from you again soon. Faithfully yours,
C.S. illegible John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. 02428