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Martinez, California July 18, 1904. Mr J. E. Calkins, Davenport, Iowa. My dear Sir: You may be sure I sorely regret
missing a visit from you, for good lovers of God's wildness are far from common even in these days of nature-books, nature-studies,
outings. I was in Australia when your kind letter to me was written, did not get home untill the end of May. But you must
come again. Editors should take a good long rest every year, a complete reviving rest especially after long continued over
work has brought on nervous prostration observations on the country, 09194