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Martinez, Jan 7, 1897 My dear Johnson Thanks for New Year's best wishes for news of Sargents sad blows of fortune But
Sargent will not down, He will soon be on his firm Mastodonic legs again strong available as ever. I am trying to get the
Sierra club to take plain open ground on the Yosemite question as to the advisability of recognizing it as a natural part
of the Yosemite National Park, which it really is sooner or later must become in fact. I am also trying to write the confounded
syndicate forest letters you Sargent have blandly loaded me with. Here is a letter from father Yorke a Catholic who has got
into controversy with our old bad friend J.P.I. He evidently has at length met his match, Ill trouble you no more with it.
Here too is a funny but telling article on the milatary management of our park With very best wishes to you family I am
ever with love John Muir Bancroft Library