Stockton Ca., May 30 - 1905 1230 N. Center St Mr. John Muir Martinez, Cal. My dear Friend: The Craftsman which you
so kindly sent us was duly received and we thank you for the pleasure its perusal has given us. The newspaper people didn't
learn of your visit to Stockton until some three days after you were here. Then they came down on me with a rush to learn
particulars. I enjoyed poking fun at them about their lack of enterprise as witnessed by the fact that a man of your size
could spend a day here without their being the wiser for it until it was too old for a news item. However they made one of
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