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American Alpine Club COUNCILORS PROF. JOSEPH N. LECONITE REV. HARRY P. NICHOLS PROF. HARRY FIELDING REID PROF. A. LAWRENCE
ROTCH PRESIDENT PROF. JOHN MUIR VICE-PRESIDENTS PROF. CHARLES E. FAY MR. HARRINGTON PUTNAM SECRETARY MR. HENRY G.
BRYANT 806 LAND TITLE BUILDING PHILADELPHIA TREASURER MR. GEORGE VAUX, JR. 404FRANKLIN BANK BUILDING PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA..... Decemher 14th, 190 8. Professor John Muir, Martinez, California. My dear Professor Muir: The presence
of Professor Penck of Berlin and many mountaineers and scholars who will be attending the meeting of this A.A.A.S. in Baltimore,
bids fair to make the coming meeting of the American Alpine Club a notable one in the quality and number of participants.
In letters received from the members of the Council of the Club, there is voiced a universal desire to have you attend and
preside at the meeting and I have been asked to communicate to you their views on the subject. I know it is a long journey
to make to attend one meeting and dinner, but we have been hoping that this call and other interests in the East might be
strong enough to induce you to undertake the journey. Realizing the considerable outlay involved, the Board has authorized
the payment of the sum of Fifty Dollars towards paying your traveling expenses in case you come East. In case you decide
to attend the meeting, will you be kind enough to telegraph me to that effect in order that I may include the information
in the final notices which go to the printer on Dec. 21st? If I 04341