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in margin: Carruth Oakland, Mar. 4, 1911 Dear Mr. Muir: Many thanks for your kind appreciation of the Book of Verses.
I am greatly delighted at the news of a forthcoming Muir book, and I heard it whispered on a Sierra Club tramp last Sunday
that possibly more than one book was in hand. Bravo I am the possessor of Stickeen, as I am of all your published volumes,
and I think as an apotheosis of man's chief four-legged friend it is unrivaled even by such classics as Dr. John Brown's Rah,
Ouida's Dog of Flanders, Jack London's Call of the Wild and Ma- 04972