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offered my own terms within reason (safe enough in dealing with Scotch) Now there; Pax vobis. Surely you dont think I tackled
these tough forest things for money Your jumping up with an armful of unworthy motives in this matter is the first immorality
I have seen in you. One book the Century Co. can brag on - the dictionary. The grandest book of the age. In my opinion a
Kingly Sequoia. I'm glad you are watching forest affairs, they look gloomy to me but we must keep pegging away as we can pray
for a better Sec. of Interior better senators. I dont know when I'll start for Klondike. Certainly not before June or July
if I start at all. Come go with me. If You'll go I'll go. Ever Yours Truly John Muir