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letterhead Oakland, Cal. June 19 1893 Dear Mr. Muir: Your very kind note acknowledging receipt of the little booklet
of verse which I sent you last winter I am ashamed to say I never answered. I will now say that the feeble sonnet therein
illegible to you is but a illegible voicing of the admiration and regard that I feel for John Muir, the illegible and friend
of Nature, whose only fault form a literary point of view is that he writes all too little. I have mailed you a number of
sonnets written since the booklet was printed. If you have