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4 00840 ice. may possibly find my way home in the fall to see my mother. I wonder if you will really go quietly away south
when your office term expires rest in the afternoon of your life among your pine orange leaves, or, unable to yet full absolution
from official Womans Rights unrest, you will fight squirm till sundown. Ive seen nothing of you all these fighting years.
I suppose nothing less than an underlined: exhaustive miniature of all the leafy creatures of the globe will satisfy your
Passadena aspirations. You know how little real sympathy I can give in such play garden schemes, still if so in appreciative
unavailable a man as I may be of use at all, let me known Ever cordially yrs John Muir. 1 920 Valencia St 21 Apr 9th
1879. Dear Mrs Carr. I did not send the pine book to you because I was using it in rewriting a portion of the Cal Forest
article which will appear in Scribner May or June, because before it could have reached you you were according to your letter
to be in San Francisco could then take it with you. It is entitled Gardon s Pineturn . Published by Henry Garden, Simpkin,
Marshall Co. Stationers Hall Court. 1845, 2d Edition. It is an exhaustive work, very exhausting anyhow, contains a fine big
much of little.