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1 Los Angeles, Cal. June 29, 1910. Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Cal. Dear Mr. Muir,- I thank you most sincerely for
your kindness in replying to the letters from my pupils, and for writing so fully. Your letter will be kept as one of the
treasures of the Sixth Grade at Hoover, with the book which they so dearly love to have read to them. The book was presented
to the class by one of the pupils - the year it was published, and I gladly a illegible de to the request of each new class
for Stickeen it contains so many excellent lessons, - and while they follow you and the dog most anxiously - I rejoice that
they are at the same time being led - step by step - out into the storm, and over the glacier 04822