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s. c. EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT THE CENTURY- MAGAZINE UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK November 9, 1899 R. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R.U.JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Cal. My dear Muir, I was very much delighted
to get your letter of the 8th of October and to know that the Harriman expedition was enlivened with so much cheerful verse.
We think of calling Burroughs's articles, Burroughsing illegible Muir in tho Glacial Northwest. If they should call for a
reply from you, it could be entitled Muiring it wfth Burroughs It is good news to our firm that you are going to write the
Yosemite book and the Alaska material. As to the dog story, your proposition came too late to enable us to reach the market
this year.Books for the Christmas trade are all prepared in the summer time, and dummies of them sent about with an agent
to get advance orders;so that, even if it were possible to rush it through now for the Christmas trade, it would be put out
at a disadvantage. Mr. Scott, President of our company;with whom I have just spoken, says that we should like nothing better
than a book of such stories from you for next year, and as I know you have several up your sleeve which would 02439