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3 Had your life's story then been written I should have wished to ask you more about those wonderful mechanical inventions,
which then I only knew of in the vaguest way. Now, as I read about them more fully, I am surprised at this novel expression
of your life and its interests; and my surprise is the greater because, surely, it is only rarely that literary mastery and
poetic 1 Brookline, Mass. December 2nd, 1913. Dear Mr. Muir: When I sent you a letter some six weeks ago I did not
foresee that I should so soon have occasion to write to you again. I have just finished the first volume of your autobiography
and I cannot help telling you how much it interested me, for the 05622