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Ridge Road and Highland Place Berkeley, Cal. December 19 1901 My dear Mr. Muir: - It was most thoughtful of you to send
me a copy of you new book. Many of the beautiful essays which it contains I have read with real delight in the magazines,
but now I shall take an added pleasure in meeting them between the covers of your book. You are doing a noble work in sending
people to the hills and groves; in opening their eyes to the beauties of all living things which lie about 02752