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rough draft of letter July 4 1911? Houghton Mifflin Co., PolDear Sirs: live just received the corrected M.S. I want
tospend a half day or so on it before forwarding to you. In the meantime please send me the M.S. I left with you, that I may
copy the corrections as I shall need to use it in making other plans for publishing it at least in part, since the Atlantic
and I suppose the Youth's Companion have unexpectedly declined it. This will, of course, cause some delay. For wishing naturally
to have as many readers as possible for my story. I want the greater part of it to appear first in some good magazine. Your
right to the book will, of course, be reserved. The advantage in magazine publication is illustrated, as far as my own experience
goes by both the Mountains of California of which as a book only about 10,000 copies sold, while about 200.000 of the magazine
copies were sold . Stickeen had probably 200.000 copies sold in a single mo nth . All The National Parks was first published
in the Atlantic. Probably the whole may be left until I return from S outh Am erica . In the meantime it can be running through
a maga zine . John Muir 05044