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in margin: 818 00922 Indianapolis June 6th 1880 232 N. Ala. illegible My Dear John Louie Muir , The little box enclosing
the orange blossoms(?) and the cake came safely to hand a day or two since. We were all delighted to have this assurance that
the rumors we had heard through Prof. Jordan were true. No doubts after this John Muir we knew. Louie Muir we shall have to
learn. But if she is a part of John, the task will not be difficult. Yet we are human enough not to be entirely satisfied
with faith we want to be told how she looks how why she ran away with John s heart and