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Rough draft of letter - marked Copy letter to Mrs. Goelet, 647 Fifth Ave.-N.Y. Martinez, California, June 1, 1909. Dear
Mrs. Goelet: Many thanks for your kind letter and the photographs recalling delightful days. When-next I cross the continent
rest assured I'll look you up and gladly go exploring in Central Park for signs of ancient ice and show you glacial features
so wondrous smooth and bright your jokes will all be quenched in praise of polar snow. Yes, truly, in your park there are
burnished mirror rocks in which you may see far back into the sculpturing, beauty-making ice mantles Of the past. Glad you
like Stickeen. So many are reading his story I may try to write some more good words for-our poor earth-born companions and
fellow mortals of whom we really know so little. I've been locking-over old note-books and have found lots of sketches of
animals With traits wonderfully human, but none so tellingly displayed as those of Stickeen. Still they may have a corroborative
value to make it worth while to gather them into a book for young folks. J. M.