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1 Maywood Ills. 2 Sept. 1909 Dr. John Muir Martinez, California My dear Friend. I have read with great pleasure
your Stickeen . I find the same pen finds alike in narration description, and the same genial soul that loveth All things
both great and small. I can but recall the day you came to me with wooden clocks asked a place for them. Wonder-working clocks
regulating so much of labor as student teacher I trust you have them still in place of honor. A few years ago I was in Edinburg
I went into the cemetery at foot of Calton Hill, to see the bronze figure of L illegible the tomb of Hume. I found near those
a monument to 3 (or 4) martyrs (banished for love of their fellowman. I copied inscriptions remarks made at their trial. One
read as follows: I have devoted myself to the 04573