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(61) Martinez, Jan. 7. 1898 My dear Johnson. I'm not kidnapped, nor have I been beguiled into signing away any of my
own or Century rights. The fuss you make about the bits of things I write is most flattering. As to the forestry articles
two have been published I'm at work on three others. The Yellowstone, Yosemite, Sequoia National Parks. Sargent started them.
He urged Page to write write got me started on them. Page offering my own term both for the magazine book. Knowing what you
had already done on forestry I had no reason to hope the Century would accept them. I wanted to do all I could for the woods.
Then spurred on as before by Sargent others Page inquired whether I had made any engagement with the Century for an Alaska
book finding the ground clear offered to print the whole book chapter by chapter on a month