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First draft of letter, in note-book Martinez, March 6, '05. Mr. Alexander B. Thaw, New York. Dear Sir: I thank you
for a copy of your Inaugural Ode you so kindly sent me. I have not yet found time to give it a careful reading. No doubt you
have greatly enjoyed your work. It is a glorious subject, and judging from the few pages I have had time to read I shall find
in it many fine thoughts. With best wishes, and hoping to meet you ere long, I am, Faithfully yours, John Muir Following
another draft same letter Dear Sir: I thank you for your kind letter and also your little book An Inaugural Ode which
has just arrived. I have not yet had time to give it the careful reading it requires. The subject is a grand one, and doubtless
you have greatly enjoyed it. Hoping to meet you ere long, I am. Faithfully yours, John Muir 36 East 74th St.