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Martinez Dec. 15/06 Dear Mr Johnson: Through all the last three trouble-filled years I have not written a single line
for the press. Since our return from Arizona I have been repairing earthquake damage to the house. We are now quietly settled
for the winter I hope to try my pen once more. As to G. W. James, he is an unscrupulous ex-minister who tries to get hold
of anything in anyway to make money. The letters he has got possession of are a lot written long ago to Mrs Carrs wife of
Prof. Carr under whom I studied at the State University of Wisconsin. Some are about 40 yrs old, but most were written from
Yosemite when I lived there