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come of this thorough examination of the scheme there can be no doubt, and it must surely put the question at rest for all
time, at least as far as our great park is concerned, and perhaps all the other national parks. I have been hidden down here
in Los Angeles a month or two working hard on books. Two or three weeks ago I sent the manuscript of a small book to Houghton
Mifflin Company, who expect to bring it out as soon as possible. It is entitled My First Summer in the Sierra, written from
notes made forty-one years ago. I have also nearly ready a lot of animal stories for a boys' book, drawn chiefly from my experiences
as a boy in Scotland and in the wild oak openings of Wisconsin. I have also re-written a lot of autobiographical notes dictated
at Mr. Harriman's Pelican Lodge on Klamath Lake two years ago. Next month I hope to bring together a lot of Yosemite sketches
for a sort of travelers' guide book, which ought to have been written many years ago. So you see what with furnishing illustrations,
reading proof,and getting this Yosemite guide book off my hands, it will hot be likelythat I can find time for even a short
visit to New York this summer.Possibly, however, I may be able to get away a few weeks in the autumn.Nothing, as you well
know, would be more delightful than a visit to yourblessed Garrisons-on-the-Hudson, and I am sure to make it some time erelong,
unless my usual good luck should fail me utterly. With warmest regards to Mrs. Osborn and Josephine and all the family I
am, my dear Mr. Osborn, Ever faithfully your friend To Prof. Henry F.Osborn, John Muir American Museum of Natural History
New York City 04777