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R. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R. U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. June 7th, 1894. My dear Muir:-
First of all, let me thank you most warmly for your kind invitation to my son to come to California. Any other year but this
it would be feasible, but I do not see how I can arrange it this year much as I prize the opportunity of having him with you
in the mountains. His school will be out of the 27th of June and I wish with all my heart he could leave on the 28th for California.
Please consider me deeply indebted to you for this invitation. I don't think there is a ghost of a chance of his being able
to come, but I should really like to know your further plans with reference to the Yosemite so that if anything unexpected
should happen to admit of his coming I would know the situation. Is there any possibility of your going into the Yosemite
next year? Now as to your book. I am sorry you did not ask me to read the proof, but I appreciate your motive in not wishing
to give me the alleged trouble. However, as the labor we delight in physics pain I have volunteered to read the proof, without
invitation; not that I expect to find anything of serious import, but because I am thoroughly interested in the volume and
might as well read it now as later. The first01821