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5/ 5 I'd like to show you how such a book ought to be made published - a thing like the Alaska Expedition of Mr. Harriman
which we made That's my idea of book-making; it was to do such things that I came back from Boston and set up a shop of my
own. Sometime, too, you may have certain chapters of things that you haven't given to other magazines. The our magazines
- any of 'em, all of 'em - The World's Work, or Country Life, will yawn for you; 02758 6 and our checks will grow larger
to rise to great occasions whenever you will barter literature for lucre But I don't mean to descend to gold. I meant only
to express, across this long silence, my hearty appreciation thanks for what I have read in the Atlantic; my best wishes;
my hope that the toil of writing brings you something of the joy that it gives your readers; and - my request for your photograph
Ease strength to your pen Believe me heartily? yours Walter H. Page John Muir Esq. Martinez, California