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Maidson, Wis. Feb. 10th 1888. John Muir, Esq. My dear Friend. Thanks to the post we can embrace one another from the ends
of opposed winds. But we do not . Lest us close up the ranks and the move as they grown thin. Three years ago last October,
Gen'l Abrord? after long palsy - passed away. Nor was it long before his wife followed. News of his death reached me in Vienna.
Joshua Jones I saw in W.Fork in July /86. He recalled your telepath- ic impulse to go in search of me. and our noncontre a
truth stran- ger than fiction. I have published the whole adventure as I lay in my mind and wish I had your version of the
impulse or illegible that led you to seek me me whom you had no reason to think to be at all on the Pacific slope. A year
ago I went south calling in Nashville and Montgomery. In Florida I often thought of you there. My sojourns were in Gainesville,