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3 Love to all your happy family to thee David. The circumstances of my life since I last bade you farewell have wrought
many changes in me, but my love for you all has only grown greater from year to year, whatsoever befals I shall ever be yrs
affectionately John Muir 2 perhaps I should have waited until the book was in print, for it is not absolutely certain
that it will be accepted by the publishing houses. It has first to be submitted to the tasling critics but as everything in
the way of magazine newspaper articles that the old pen has ever traced has been accepted paid for I reasonably hope I shall
have no difficultly in obtaining a publisher. The manuscript has just been sent to New York will be reported on in a few weeks.
I leave for the mountains of Utah deleted: in a f today. The frayed upper end of the pen was produced by nervous gnawing when
some interruption in my logic or rhetoric occurred from stupidity or weariness. I g illegible d the upper end to send the
thoughts below out at the other