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6 health that I had shattered by too close devotion to the desk of a daily paper. The mountains, with their rocks, and trees,
and cascades, and tarns, and wild things, for me. No other sanatorium likes me half as well. I hope we shall have more from
your inspired pen. The world needs it, and you have the matter in hand with which to supply it. Beside, it is time for another
chapter; indeed, a whole book. Some day you will be going a long journey from which you will forget to return to gladden the
hearts of men with those inimitable word pictures that chase care out of the heart so quickly for those who love them. You
know how the light of late afternoon fails in the forest of the Sequoia, even though it be on the western slope where the
sunshine lingers last and longest. I hope you will soon give me a chance to review, in my weak way, another book. It will
be a good one when it comes. Meantime I shall live in the hope of further kindly word from you, and a meeting such as you
suggest. I have nothing great to show you here - only the Mississippi and lovely Rock island, but if you came by this trail
through the eastern wilderness of business I hope you will pull my humble latch string. It has lone swayed and frayed i' the
wind for the tug of your fingers: Faithfully yours- J. E. Calkins. Mr. John Muir; Martinez, California. 03431