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Madison, April 21, 1892. John Muir, Esq. My dear Friend, It is too long since I have heard a syllable from you. Let
it not be longer. I give you a leaf of my life, and if I get not one of yours shall know you have forgot yourself. Angels
must have had charge over me or I could never have survived while swinging round the circle and from Equator to mid-night
sun. I have written you that Agnes joined me in London where we spent six weeks and seven in rural Britain. The two girls
and I have been all winter one trio here. the boys and their mother another at Superior. In both groups has been health. illegible
and we have daily Embraced from the ends of opposed winds . A few articles in the Nation have been all my publications. illegible
Have treated in our Club. Cities of the great Mogul , and lectured in University on Round the world . But I have been mainly
a book worm in the same Library you must remember in my house and in the Capitol.