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Birds etc 81 surounded by snow robed peaks, who are the last, to be kiss't asleep by the sun's lowering rays. I will have
to put up with what others say in pictured words of their grandure and allows the mind to build them into form and color.
Mr Muir, if you could ever fine any spare time, while in Oakland at any time to spare a run, out to Haywards by the Electric
Cars, we are only four blocks from them at Bridge St. Remember the latch string - will always hang on the outside for you.
I am living here, with an only dear old Mother and should be glad to show you a few birds or sketches and studies, done in
many moods of natures color and shadows. I mail you a copy of the first No I of the Cooper Ornithological Club. with a sketch
of Dr. J G Cooper's life, one of the first ornithologists of the west coast. No doubt you have often meet him at the Academy
of Sciences. in S.F. Thanking you a thousand times, for the peasure of your book of mountain scene's. yours truly W. Otto
Emerson