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ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 2 this summer and stick to work. whenever you get east you may be sure of a warm welcome and entire
protection from people whom you do not want to see, and all social functions and formalities. We can go down, if you like,
and pass a few days on the end of Cape Cod where my family goes for a few weeks every summer; and we can do a lot of other
pleasant and informal things about here if you arrive sometime before it is time to start southward. I will write again as
soon as I hear from Canby. I am really very much obliged for all the trouble you have taken about these Abies flowers, and
I regret exceedingly that you should have had this long journey to Shasta with such inadequate results. Such disappointments
as this, however, will show you how much trouble I have had in getting The Silva along as far as it is, and how much anxiety
I still feel about the concluding parts. The new Palms of southern Florida especially harass me, and I do not yet see my way
clear to obtain the material I need. Nothing new in the forestry situation in Washington. Let me hear from you again soon,
and believe me, always faithfully yours, C.S. illegible John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. 02432