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Geo. Englemann, M. D. 3003 Locust Street. St. Louis, Mo., April 11 1881 My dear Mr Muir Let me congratulate you and
Mrs Muir on the happy event, of which a kind note from Dr Strentzel has just informed me. Well, when this reaches your, the
matter is already old and congratulations are out of date; what was a baby then, is now a young lady, she can at least say
Papa and Mama. Who ever has once been roaming about in California wants to be there again, and who has seen illegible and
illegible harken after? spring and fresh delightful vegetation. But whether it will come to that? I do not know yet But as
I certainly shall not (if at all) be there in season for the flowering of the Oaks I would ask you to get for me at least
the two species which grow close about you. One is illegible cobata, which grows as you