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C29 but especially In Hew York. Up here fifty miles from New York at Garrisons on the Hudson, in Prof. Osborn's fine home,
surrounded with forest, I have got through the help spell in comparative comfort. It is now much cooler. I am working hard
to try and finish my Yosemite Book before I sail for South America, which I think will be about the 15th of August. I had
a great time at Yale, and also in Boston and Washington. I have not seen John Burroughs but have had a long letter from him.
I am hard at work on that Yosemite Book, so many interruptions causing very slow progress. Houghten Mifflin Company is going
to bring out the autobiography. They think a great deal of it and offer much higher royalty for it than any other of my books.
Three other publishers were extremely anxious to get it on the royalty of illegible from the beginning illegible but I think
better to stay by Houghten Mifflin. They want to bring it out immediately but I want at least part of it to appear in some
magazine, so that will delay the publication in book form for six months or so. I suppose you will soon be busy with your
Bartlett pairs. I hope you have a good crop and that the grapes will turn out better than you expect. With all good wishes,
Faithfully yours, illegible P. S. Did you send those silk pongee clothes that I asked you to send by express? If so
I have not