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T. P. Lukens Sunday 14th My Dear Mr Muir I am sure you how much I regret to know that Helen has had a set back. I had
not know it before, and my wife and sister joins me in the hope that she may spedily recover. I beleive I know just the place
for you to take her. My friend and one of your great admirers, Theodore S. Van Dyke has a Ranch home on the Mojava Desert
at Dagget just East of Barsts, he has beautiful Alfalfa fields, lots of milk, eggs c and I beleive would take you in in some
way. Mr Van Dyke is an artist, and a writer, only this, he is a great hunter, and beleives in it, but he is not a pot hunter.
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