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218 San Jose, Cal., May 1, 1895 Dear Mr. Muir, I find genuine pleasure in your book, which you so kindly sent me.
I had not yet seen it, though I had been quick to notice its coming from the press. It makes one feel that the Douglas Squirrel,
the Water-Ouzel, the wild sheep, and all the other living things you describe, are his very friends as well as yours. The
breath of the wild, free mountains is in it, 01980