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2 of yours, though besides the great illegible of material that you already possessed you must have many of those finely
penciled notebooks, set with thumb-nail sketches jotted down during your researches among the forests of Oregon and Washington
and in strange lands and far. If I cannot read of these things in published books or magazine articles I must perforce come
up to the Alhambra valley and hear something of it from your own lips, which will be infinitely more delightful. Will, after
halting? between Forestry and Music, chose the latter and after playing with orchestras for a couple of years, saved up his
money for a two years stay at Yale, and is now there studying harmony, composition, Theory and the Pipe Organ. He is a fine
pianist and a very competent organist, having studied 04990