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submit to your publishers for illustration, if agreeable to you, when the book is ready. Mrs. Gleason and I are planning
another California trip for next summer, leaving here March 1st, as I have been asked to deliver a series of lectures on the
Coast under the management of Mr. Illegible of Los Angeles. I do not know yet whether he has booked me for San Francisco or
not, but I presume I shall have several engagements in that vicinity, and if so I hope at least one of them will be within
easy reach for you, for I would like very much to have you see my slides, especially those on California. Mr. Hors-burgh urges
me to bring my California slides with me for he says (and my experience corroborates it) that there are a great multitude
of people in California who know absolutely nothing about the glorious scenery of their own state. We enjoyed very much the
other day reading your manuscript of Stickeen which H. M. Co. sent to me to look over as they had heard I had a photograph
of Stickeen. But I found, of course, that my picture of the present Stickeen would hardly do to represent the original. Mrs.
Gleason joins me in most cordial regards,both for you and Miss Helen, who, we hope, is now enjoying the best of health, and
wishing you all the compliments of the season I am Faithfully yours, Illegible