1 letterhead St Francis Hotel San Francisco. April 22nd 1909 John Muir Esqr. My dear Sir: I do not like to leave
the coast without writing you a line to say how keen is my regret at not having the pleasure of seeing you. I am to take up
Mr. Perry's work on the Atlantic when he leaves us this summer and in the mean time am picking up a useful kind of 04481
2 Education wandering about the country. You are so old a friend of the magazine that I wanted very much to have a chat
with you and if possible to secure? your help in making it continually better; but from? Mr. Lummis and others I hear that
you are pl illegible ging into the Yosemite for a stay of unknown length. Hoping that some day I may