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808 East Tenth Street, Davenport, Iowa. August 23, 1904. My Dear Mr. Muir:- Your charming, and really unexpected,
letter, dated at Martinez July 18, reached my home here in due time, but has only just reached me. On the day it was penned
I was starting for 5 weeks in the Yellowstone National Park, and the Jackson's Lake Country immediately south of the wonderland,
and so missed it. But I hope your modesty will suffer me to say that nothing that I saw, or heard, or did, on all that delightful
tour gave me the real pleasure and satisfaction that came to me in one little paragraph of a letter of my good wife's, in
which she told me I had awaiting me here at home a wonderful letter from John Muir, etc, etc. I walked about the remainder
of that day in a good deal of a trance, I surmise; certainly I felt that way. I must tell you that for years I have found
in your work an insight into the natural world, and capacity for telling what you see, and a style and charm in the way of
the telling, that are 03431