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letterhead 24 August 1912 Mr John Muir Martinez, California, U. S. A. Dear Sir, In receipt of your favour of the
25th of June copies of your books Mountains of California Stickeen for same, I thank you most heartly. I am very glad to here
you have had a very safe pleasant voyage home. I heartly congratulate you on the successful trip you have made through south
middle Africa. By todays mail I am sending to your address under separate cover, ten prints taken from five of the negative,
as you will see by them that I have overexposed the plates; that is the cause of the fog. One of the negatives turned out
useless, spoilt. In the middle of September I will go over the same ground again have them all taken over from the same position.
I have bought a new lens with a wider angle which, will give me a better panoramic view from the same positions. 05259