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2 in a week. I have not yet seen it dont know whether it has any portrait in it or not never having said a word on the subject
to the publishers. However I have a half dozen more vols to write this photograph may yet be engraved. This is a popular
book easily read, though a good deal of science lurks in it unseen covered with brush words. One of the chapters was scientific
but by advice of the publishers I took it out, for use in another volume. I have been at the ranch all summer, reading proof,
bossing? Chinese etc. so comparatively 3 2 this has been a barren year not a single glacier in it or piece of wild woods
or garden though I have seen the wilderness at times in dreams have heard the hum of bees in the bryanthus beds on top of
the Alaska mountains. The winds in the woods the boom crack roar of avalanches icebergs on the slopes of the peaks at the
heads of the icy fiords, notwithstanding this summer has been Saharaly hot I have been hibernating--living on the fat of better
times like a bear in its den I had a pleasant letter a week or two ago from your friend Rusk of Pasadena in which our charming
evenings at your home last summer were lovingly remembered I often see Keith-- he always