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-1- THE WORLB'S WORK DOUBLE DAY, PAGE COMPANY-PUBLISHERS 34 UNION SQUARE, EAST NEW YORK WALTER H.PAGE EDITOR October
3d, 1904. My dear Mr. Muir: One thing that you escaped by going around the world was a lot of letters from me. I congratulate
you, therefore, not only on all the interesting things that you saw and learned, but likewise on many tiresome things that
you escaped. But now your doom in come I have your letter before me of long ago, in which you were good enough to tell me
of your plans. You then had on the stocks a little book for the century people which you were going to call Yosemite and other
Yosemites . You wrote me that you had promised this to Mr. Johnson and that you felt under obligations to offer it to the
century company. I presume that the arrangement stills holds good. But, if you have struck any snag, I simply wish to remind
you of a mighty good publishing-house that I know of which would be glad to have it. -2- Then you went on to tell me of
the California tree and Shrub book which you had talked over with dr. Merriam. And about this you were good enough to write
me you shall have the first sight of it . Remember, while you are reading this letter, that my eyes are turned westward directly
on the meridian of Martinez, and I am looking for that book. The next thing you mentioned in the order of your plans when
you wrote this letter was a book all about walking, climbing and camping with a lot of illustrative excursions . For that,
I mount the house-tops and look westward; for, from a publisher's poor point of view, this is worth more than the preceding
one. Then you mentioned Alaska - glaciers, forests, mountain travels, etc. , which will be a mighty good volume. The next
that you mentioned was a book of studies on the action of landscape-making forces which you called my main real book in which
I'll have to ask my readers to cerebrate . Let me remind you that the readers are ready to begin cerebration; and I could
find them and set them a-going, if I had the book.if I had the book. 03452