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AH. SELLERS Hotel Metropole CHICAGO Sep't 11th 1904. Our dear Mr. Muir:- Just as we were about to leave our old house
on Michigan Ave, the last of June, we received your splendid letter of June 16th last from Martinez, and I hurridly answered
it. Yesterday, Fay, in handing ire the wail, said here is a newspaper sent you by Mr. Muir . Glancing at it I saw it was
post marked New Castle N S illegible and said well this explains why we have heard nothing from Mr. Muir. he has gone back
to Australia . Tearing off the cover. I saw it was the Daily Telegraph Sidney Jug 6. 1904. It contained a marked 3 column
article on Our vanishing brothers. Northern tribes of central Australia- Messrs Spencer and Cillen's book- A valuable and
interesting record. Afterwards, looking the paper over, I found on the first page in red pencil Marked copy F. W. G. which
explained who it was from. F.W.G. being Fred. w. Coding, Mrs Sellers' cousin, who is the U. S. Consul at New Castle New South
Wales. He is quite a naturalist, and has sent me some valuable books on the aborigines of that country. Now, to show you
how natural it was for my wife and me to be misled by the address on the cover of the paper, I send it to you, with the envelop
of your letter showing my address as written by you, from which you will see that the similarity in the handwriting is certainly
remarkable. We were all interested and delighted with your letter, and were astonished at how much you told us in the four
pages. It gave us a splendid idea of your great travels, and what you saw, in a very few words. 03439