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4 on the subject. I have a daughter Gertrude who, like me, loves nature, mountains and travel. She went to the Coast with
me and would listen with delight to many passages from your Books. She said one day Mother I know why he wasn't afraid way
up on that mountain because he was so full of Love for every teenty weenty thing I helped her arrange her dool house a recent
rainy morning. One room she hung with sea shells and eucalyptus buds and put a quaint little Keepe? man in possession. Now
she said Mother tha's my John Muir 1 1912 Milwaukee Dear Mr Muir Is there not a saying to the effect that he who
plants a tree needs no marble monument erected to his memory? Appropo of this I want to tell you that from the mountains
I retain in my minds eye to the humblest native flower here in Wis everything in nature has grown dearer to me since reading
your Books. I read The Mountains of Cal. in April. Then Our Nat'l Parks and now have your latest book on the Yosemite 05345