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4 I am reading on my way East, your very interesting book on The Mountains of California and congratulate you on this presentation
of these grand mountains of ours, with their glaciers forests animal life, in such truthful yet entertaining delightful form,
as that we can hardly leave off when once enjoyed in reading it. I hope it may have many readers, and you great satisfaction
and profit as the result of its publication. that many thousands may be drawn by its perusal to visit our Sierras. I wrote
with a pencil while the train is in motion so please excuse penmanship. my long explanatory letter. Hoping to hear from you
at your earliest conveniences in reply. I am, Very Truly, Your Friend Jno. T. McLean