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May 16th 1905 Mrs Irvine L. Lenroot Superior Wis Dear Madam, It is wonderful how plain stories are mixed confounded
made false leaving not a single fact in any of them but only the ghost of a fact. T original story abt T dis of Linnaea yu
will fd in T art Linnaeus in A Library of T World's Bst Lit. edited by Chas. Dudly Warner, wch I supp you will easily find.
Here are T outlines of T story. A hun yrs aft Lin died Asa Gray, Sir Jos. Hooker I were illegible on Mt Shasta our camp was
in a grnd forest of silver 03569 2 firs. Aft sup I built a bg fire, T flowers T trees illumined by T firelight seemed
to be look in listen as we talked. Gray told many a story of his life so did Hooker. Of course we talked of trees, bt it was
not wht was said in prs of our grnd illegible cedars firs pines TT was not mem TT night - It was wht was sd of T lowly fragrant
namesake of Lin - Linnaeaborealis. Aft a pause in T flow of our conversat , Gray suddenly sd Muir, why hv yu not fd Linnaea
in Cal? It must be 03569