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53 Chancery Lane London, W.C. April 8, 1908. Mr? John Muir. Dear Sir, I am writing to send you, by this week's mail,
a little book on the Welsh and English mountains which I have just published, not because I think it? particularly worthy
of your attention, but because I have in several passages made reference to your Mountains of California , a work which has
been a source of much joy and inspiration to me, as I am sure it must have been to many other readers. Permit me, though a
stranger, to offer you my thanks for the beautiful things which you have there written of the mountains. Your book is worthy
of its subject; and what 04133