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2 work of publication is being done in New York as it is coming out in numbers you will soon see part of it. I have already
written sent in the two first numbers the illustrations I think are nearly ready Annie is now grown to be an enormous botanist
has already a fine new flower named for her, Clarkia Muiriana She now entertains the queer hallucination that she is married
as much or more than even you or anybody, that this is her first child. She seems to feel bigger than an Asiatic Elephant
about it Mother all the family express themselves as greatly pleased with Your new domestic arrange- ments Annie also, though
she thinks your marriage a small affair compared with hers. Give my love to your wife, believe me ever truly your brother
friend John Muir 01273