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November 28, 1898 X. W. GILDER, EDITOR. R. V. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUSL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. John Muir,
Esq., Martinez, Cal. My dear Muir, Here are some notes which came to you after you left and which I have not before forwarded
because I have expected a line from you giving your address, but by this time you must be half way across the continent.
I hope you had a glorious time of it in Florida and Louisiana, and that you found everybody well on your return. Please tell
Mrs. Muir that we enjoyed very much our all too brief glimpse of you. we are delighted with the photograph of you by Hollinger,
showing you with a hat on and writing in your note-book illegible Faithully yours, illegible P. S. I see that the Atlantic
announces an article by you on the Grand Canon of the Colorado. If I remember rightly, when I mentioned that topic to you
as one that we desired to have you write about, you said it was impossible illegible