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Telephone, 2377 Main Cable Address, Gerard-Chicago INTERNATIONAL PRESS BUREAU W. G. CHAPMAN, Manager 84-86 LA SALLE STREET
CHICAGO NEWSPAPER FEATURES PUBLISHERS' AND AUTHORS' AGENTS April 5th, 1909. Mr. John Muir, Martinez, California.
My dear sir,- There is such an encouraging trend toward everything pertaining to Nature at this period, that I am tempted
to issue in our service to newspapers a series of articles on the out-of-doors---articles dealing with the wild life of the
woods, such as you know it, perhaps better than anyone else. And I think such a series from your pen would prove of vast interest
and value to that great proportion of the reading public that looks to the newspapers for its literature, and seldom reads
the magazines and the better class of books. Would you be interested in the suggestion? And would you care to undertake to
provide such a series--of, say, perhaps twelve papers? Though I have some doubt that the venture would prove a large success
from a view-point of pecuniary profit, that is not entirely my object in making this proposal, as the personal satisfaction
of issuing such a series would be in itself a sufficient inducement. But we would of course remunerate you at a fait rate
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