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4 of kindred minds. I have often longed that you were here, illegible illegible illegible illegible H. Edwards J.
Muir. 00551 1 California illegible San Francisco. August 25. 1871 My dear Muir Your kind letter, which was so welcome
to me, found me confined to my bed with a severe attack of rhematic illegible , indeed since I received it, I have been in
too much suffering to write you a line in reply. I sat up to day for the first time in nearly two weeks, while I was sitting
for a little while in my illegible room our dear friend Mrs Carr walked in, brought me your box of butterflies. The sight
of them has done me good, I hope in a day or two, I will be quite rested. Do not again ever think that you cannot collect,
or that what you do find will be valueless. In the