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2 the governor of the state says you shall have them as soon as they are ready. So if you illegible you illegible I advise
you to let m? know it at once. I under- stand you at illegible at 1419 Taylor St. where I shall direct this. I have just risen?
from reading in the Nov. Harper your article upon the Sequoia s I have read it aloud to that eager woman of mine, and we are
both charmed with it. God grant you may write 3 your geology in as interesting a manner. There is one thing I cannot
help wanting to shake your hand for, viz. the indirect influence your writings must have upon your readers, in relation to
the kind treatment of illegible animals. I would as soon shoot a fellow man, as to have shot one of them sleek deer you speak
of in your article. But the Reverend Mr. Murr, would have p illegible his soul s salvation to have shed that innocent blood
underlined: bide? his book on the illegible