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GEO. HANSEN LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT 2705 HEARST AVENUE, BERKELEY, CAL. ADVISORY ARCHITECT TO PARK COMMISSIONS, MUNICIPALITIES
AND CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONS April 3d., 1903. Dear Friend, It has been many a day since I have had SO unexpected and such
sincere pleasure as a little item in the paper gave me. It may be silly some to express such to you. But I am nothing if I
cannot follow the instinct of my heart, and I do such not then I tell you about it. Then you, alone with our so much admired
President go into Yosemite and under the done of domen, it is to me as if the man was taken by the highpriest into the presence
of the most High. It is not only that your guidance of that one man,-though he be the chosen of the land-shall be productive
of a wonderfull and lasting impression with him. No, to me, it is the touch in the innermost of thousands of men and woman
that shall be given through this example. I am a fortunate man for having drawn breath under the shadows of some of those
majestic piles of living fibre, and it was with true religiosity that gain today took up your chapter on the Sequoia and read
and read, slowly and piously what God dictated to your pen. I sat in the bright sunshine on outporch, and forgive a human
the vain failing that he felt selfishly happy for being called your friend. - I cut out the clipping and pasted it in my book.
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