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EDITORIAL OFFICE OF The Atlantic Monthly, BOSTON. Very heartily I thank you for the definite promise of these books, and
whatever any of us can do in any way to serve you may you reckon on. I thank God that you do not write in glib, acrobatic
fashion: anybody can do that. Half the people in the world are doing it all the time, to my infinite regret and confusion.
And as for the Alaska book by any given time---no matter. People will be going there always; and I don't care any more than
you care about any tourists patronage. That was professorSargent's remark and it was the only immoral speech I have ever heard
him make. The two books on the Parks and on Alaska will not need any special season's sales nor other accidental circumstances:
they'll be Literature very sincerely yours, illegible Mr. John Muir. 02356