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ca May 1893 letterhead R. U. Johnson Esq. Editorial Department of Century Magazine New York. My dear Sir I have
long intended to write you again concerning the Yosemite Park reservation and in looking over the correspondence of the Sierra
Club (I have recently been elected its Secretary) I find your letters of October 18th and of February 17th to Mr. Armes. Shortly
after receiving your letter on the subject of recession, while at the Legislature, I happened to obtain the Yosemite Commissioners
view of the matter. They were at the Legislature asking for funds. I am free to confess that I did not feel ready to argue
the resolution sent me by Mr. Olney concerning recession, as I could not reply to the Commissioners statement that the Federal
Government would not properly care for the park and did not now take sufficient interest in the Yellowstone but allowed various
abuses to continue. During my conversation I managed to condemn their electric-search-light scheme. Since all this began we
have been fortunate enough to obtain as a member of the Sierra club one of the Commissioners. He is in sympathy with us already
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