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01675 letterhead LAMAR, COLO., June 5th 1893 John Muir. Esqr Dear Sir, It was indeed a pleasure to receive your
favor of the 1st inst. I scarcely expected to hear from you so soon as I supposed that you was in your California home As
you suggest I will tell you a little about myself and what I can about the other boys of the class that used to meet with
you in the old mission school. After you left I proceeded to grow up and gave that most of my attention for several years,
I continued at school until I entered the High School, when my family moved to Illinois where I farmed for 4 years and then
went back to Indianapolis when I married in May 77. I afterward moved to Kansas then to Colorado in pursuit of that elusive
god Ma illegible , I have been fairly successful so far as this worlds goods go. Have had two children, both girls, but lost
both, one at 10 months the other at 11 years of age. You see it has been a rather uneventful life, but wife I manage to get
a good deal of pleasure out of life together make the most of our opportunities for doing a little good as we go along. I
am at present in the employment of the Canal Co above. as local manager for them