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in margin: 313 01039 1882 Overland Office, Dec. 18 th Dear Mr Muir: I hope you will be very sure to come to Mr
Scott s Overland dinner, for which you rec d a card I believe, a day or two since. You will like to meet Mr Scott, and to
dine in a picture-gallery, and there will be some very pleasant people there. And you will say a few words, will you not?
deleted: about in answer to a toast on Nature and Literature ? Dr Jo Le Conte has promised to speak of Science and Literature
, and we shall try to get Horace Davis to say something about Business Life and Literature . Of course it is a just a few
informal words, of the impromptu illegible with-warning beforehand class. it is very good of Mr Scott, don t