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4 Whenever I speak of Alaska and recommend people to go there to see its wonders, that is always the principal inducement
I mention. I ask you to believe, my dear Mr. Muir, that I always think of you with the utmost respect and I may truly say
admiration; and that in all sincerity I am most truly, Your obliged, Wm M. Canby I sent your Mountains of California
to Mr. Anderson 1 Wilmington Delaware Oct. 24th 1897 My dear Mr. Muir, Prof. August has written me of the death
of your mother-in-law, the dear old lady who so kindly received us when he and I were at your house some years since. I desire
to express my sympatny with you and especially with Mrs. Muir at this severance of so tender and close a relation. However
circumstances of poor health or suffering may seem to the outside world to make such a change even desirable it is always
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