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for icebergs glaciers fresh air, To the Andes for exercise noble aboriginal Araucaria forests - To South Africa Madagasear
for giant Baobabs back by India for another look at the Himalaya deodars. etc etc- I congratulate you on having now all the
world for a house, yet I can't help feeling a little sad at the loss of the avenue home, the only home I ever had in Chicago.
I'm puttering a little with my pen trying to write another book have planned five others. When if ever I can get any of them
off my hands I dont know. It seems hardly worth while to waste so much precious time on them. With love to you all, sympathy
for the sick mother I am ever faithfully yours John Muir