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in margin: Miscellaneous letterhead December 10. 1897. My dear Muir Tom Magee was in my office yesterday, and in speaking
of his deliverance from his recent perils hardships, said he felt that it was due to nature's protection of him by reason
of his love for her; that you had told him that the wild apple had more seeds than the cultivated one, etc. I then set to
thinking about your own experience 02370