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letterhead Superior, Wis. July 30, 1889 Mr John Muir My dear Friend. How busy - or how forgetful of old friends
you have grown In the winter I mailed you a Butler family - a pedigree for which I watched and waited long to trace, in various
lines, my first Am. ancestors; - Bates and Butler to 1635. - Harris 1631, Sigourney to 1685, etc. A dozen of my books are
in the hands of experts abroad. I would fair follow my lineage beyond the nightly deep, like Syracusan Arethusa beneath the
Ionian to her native Grecian fountain. But you have made no sign to show that my book has come to your hands. My family are
all here. Henry came here six years ago. The growth has been great. - he is an alderman, and this very hour is away at a council
meeting.