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4 it was sermoned? you were about to get out your papers on the Sierra in book form . You ought to do so, in p illegible
to your own labor. I am now settled in N. York, at the best f illegible theatre in America. I am comfortably fixed, we have
a pleasant home, where I need not say you will ever be most welcome. Mi illegible sends her best love to you both, with all
good wishes, Believe me, always your devoted friend illegible Edwards. Jno Muir. 00957 1 Wallack s? Theatre. New
York. Nov 4. 1880 My Dear friend By a paragraph in the N.Y. Evening Post (Bryant s old paper) of the 3rd of this month,
I find you have gone to Alaska, that you are writing some charming papers to the So.? Bulletin as to your doings seeings in
that strange unknown land. I take so much interest in all that you do, follow you usually with such a close regard? , that
I blame myself for not knowing beforehand that you were about to make the journey to the far north of our po illegible . Had
I done so, I should have asked you to help me, as you have so often done before; by the collection of specimens in my own
travel of Natural History study? .