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ca 1908 letterhead Mr. John Muir, President American Alpine Club. My dear Mr. Muir: I venture to address you regarding
the coming Club meeting at Boston, and beg to urge that you will decide to come and be with us at that time. I need not say
that you presence at such a meeting would be the occasion of great satisfaction, not only to the Club friends, but to your
many Eastern readers, who recall your association with Emerson. Under our present arrangements the annual meetings are held
at N.Y., Philadelphia and Baltimore so that meetings at Boston are seldom less than four years apart. Can you not therefore
decide to come? I am emboldened to write you because of meeting you near Buck Canon diacritic in August 1902. You were returning
toward Giant Forest, and I was then en route for Mt. Whitney. I know that Professor 04125