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Jan '08 What's your Hetch Hetchy news? mine are all promising so far. Helen is now comfortably settled in a cottage I built
for her on the Van Dyke ranch on the Mohave desert, near Daggett, 10 miles east of Barstow She is already much better, though
for a complete cure, Dr Moffett says she must stay there or in some similar dry desert region for a year or two. I called
at your office last Saturday. Wishing you your fine hopeful family a happy New Year, I am ever faithfully yours John Muir