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TOMORROW SHALL BE THE FLOWER OF ALL ITS YESTERDAYS. The Southwest Museum PRESIDENT, LIEUT. GEN. ADNA R. CHAFFEE VICE
PRESIDENTS. JOSEPH SCOTT CLARA B. BURDETTE SECRETARY, CHAS. F. LUMMIS TREASURER, W. C. PATTERSON CURATOR, HECTOR ALLIOT
DIRECTORS. ADNA R. CHAFFEE JOSEPH SCOTT R. N. BULLA CLARA B. BURDETTE M. H. NEWMARK WM. LACY CHAS. F. LUMMIS Los Angeles,
Cal. Jan. 8, 1910 Mr/ John Muir, Dear Muir:- Just got your letter. Happy New Year first of all. I don't know about
your debts or your money orders and don't care a darn. If you got a bill from some of us it might be right. However I will
have it looked up to make sure and convince you that it is right. What has this, however, to do with coming down to see us?
And resting your face and exercising your jaw? YOu are the only man now extant that I would allow to talk to me all day---
but you may talk all day and all night too. I have received your Hetch-Hetchy pamphlet and have written everyone of the Congressmen
mentioned a formal letter in behalf of the Landmarks Club and the Southwest Society; and have also sent a very strong personal
letter to Senator Flint and Congressman McLachlan, enclosing copies of the same to President Taft; and also a strong letter
to Secretary Ballinger. I like old fashioned people, but you are too slow to suit me. You've got to get a clerk--- the ideas
of wasting your valuable manuscript, and holograph and autograph and all such things in such a way--- why a lovely lady in
the library has been after me for six months to get even your autograph on an envelop; and I have had to worry through about
a cord of letters to find one for her and she is going to frame it and pray to it every night. What you want to do is to get
a good secretary like Miss Brown and then also get a recording phonograph on which I am giving the first letter 04674