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Biltmore, N.C. June 19, 1893. Dear Mr. Muir, I beg your pardon most sincerely for my delay in sending you the letters
which go by this mail. it was very careless of me, but the matter slipped my mind completely. I have been in camp for a week,
or it would have been attended to before. Of the letters I send you, that to Dr. ( illegible Sir Dietrich,) Brandis? will,
I thin, be the most valuable