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letterhead March 13, 1900. Mr. John Muir, Martinez California. Dear Sir: I thank you very much for your note of
the 5th and for your solicitude on account of my health. I ought to tell you that the actual work involved in the conduct
of a magazine is not very troublesome, but the thing that gives us anxiety is our failure to extract copy from our intimate
friends, like Hobson, Tesla, and others. Our enemies we can browbeat, but with our friends browbeating would be of no avail.
The circus I had with Hobson has only been equalled by the continuous performance with Tesla, trying to get an article out
of him, and you know this is nothing to the difficulty of getting Muir to write that autobiography; so if you want to add
length of days and happiness to my life you can do it by producing some of that attractive copy concerning which we have had
so much correspondence. Meantime you are doing a very good substitute in the work you are doing to save the Calaveras Sequoias.
We have had a charming visit from Burroughs lately, and we see a good deal of Seton-Thompson and his wife. 02676