direction working in favor of the park that the R.R. benefits hoped for will be legitimate. I hear our friend John P Irish
is in Washington for what I dont know. Mr Thomas Magee wrote a good strong letter at my suggestion on the reservation of the
K R region, which was published in the N.Y. Times lately Have you seen it? He has also written a shorter letter which I will
send you as soon as I have time to look it over. Perhaps it may do good as an open letter in the Century Ever Cordially
Your friend John Muir