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2 celebrated hag? pen has I understand been abolished, many lines of fencing removed, things generally are better managed.
Still I hear nothing of the appointment of a reputable landscape gardener to lay out manage the groves meadows. The saddle
carriage horses the company claim are no longer turned loose in the valley to pasture Still I suppose the unskillful grubbing
trimming goes on as before. I have again taken up the Alaska articles will try to do something with them though the big subject
keeps running beyond magazine bounds. Thanks for the invitation to visit you will sometime. The Appletons have written twice
asking for a book on mountaineering Every Cordially Yours John Muir