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1 EDITIONAL OFFICE OF The Atlantic Mothly, BOSTON. August 3, 1900. Dear Mr. Muir, We have been looking eagerly for
your paper--the last of the papers on the Yosemite-which your telegram of June 11th bade us to expect in a month. We shall
be very glad, if we may, to have it for the October number, out-of-door papers being somewhat belated after that issue, and
we can include it if it reaches us by the 18th or 20th of the present month. This, to be sure, will give you but little time
after receiving our letter, but we are writing in this way in the hope that our letter will find the paper all ready to start.
Will you, in sending us this paper, also give us your plan about the book on Our National Parks in which these articles were
to be included ? We find on 2 looking them over that we have published since 1897 eight articles on the parks and forests,
of which five are on the Yosemite, and if our suspicion is correct that the article we are now awaiting is to be also on the
Yosemite, that will make six out of nine papers on this park and the whole number of papers would make a book probably about
76,000 or 78,000 words. The book would be brief, and it would, we think, lack proportion, giving so large an amount of space
to one park. We are reminded in this relation that in your letters of July 16th and October 14th, '97, you mentioned three
or four articles on the national parks which had appeared in the Century and which you said would naturally go into the little
book. Now we had hoped to have this book ready so that the house might add it to their fall list of this year, and we should
be glad if it were possible still 02716