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June 13th, 1894. R.W. GILDER, EDITOR. R.W. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. My dear Muir:-
As I have written you, I am at work on the proofs of your book and am very glad' to have the pleasure of reading it before
it goes to press. Yesterday we telegraphed you about the second chapter and have your reply authorizing the omission of part
of it. Your decision is judicious - to retain the first part of this chapter, which on reading it I should probably have advised
retaining even if you had consented to the omission of the whole of it; but it seems to me that the reader is at once diverted
from your subject too much by the particularity of the description of the Northern Islands - a description which is more technical
than the general character of the book. I am sure you can use this material - perhaps by rewriting it - when you come to your
second book on The glaciers of the Pacific Coast. The omitted part also seems to me a little dry, and coming at the first
would give the reader a wrong impression of the book. I have made a few changes in the pages which have been cast, principally
in the substitution or omission of adjectives like grand , glorious and charming , which occur rather too frequently for proper
effect. In general, I