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letterhead Mr John Muir Martinez, Dear Sir, Your kind note of a few weeks ago received. We have some beautiful scenery
here, and our mountain woods have there own charms for the lover of Nature, but there is nothing here that illegible interest
or calls forth the affection (shall I say love?) of the behold illegible illegible so much of the scenery in dear old California.
A few weeks ago we were reading your Mountains of California , and when we had finished I felt like a boy illegible ent to
be away seeing for myself what you have beautifully put in a book. And now 03109