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2 I thank you for the invitation to the glorious round headed Atlantic forests with Canby. Perhaps I should go to the glaciers
of Yakutat Bay, Prince Williams Sounds Cooks Inlet. Any how I'll let you know after this magnifica business is settled. Abbots
letter is very interesting. Remember me to him when you write. I have done all I could in writing to members of Congress
on the Reservations getting other friends to write, getting resolutions of the Sierra Club forwarded by telegraph post. But
in the excitement dim? of this confounded war the silent trees stand a poor show for justice. Your 11th vol of Silva arrived
the other day I at once turned to Muggins Ponderosa to see your conclusions on these wildly varied species your descriptions
of them. Both are well done though you should have sounded their praises for strength beauty indomitable unkillable courage
louder longer.