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1 Ridge Road and Highland Place Berkeley, Cal. November 8th 1899. My dear Mr. Muir: I fear you will think I am very
thoughtless and ungrateful to have delayed so long in replying to your letter, which was so hearty and hospitable that it
did me much good. Every day since I have had you on my mind and have wanted to reply, but each day's work has been so pressing
that letter writing has seems quite impossible. I have been seeing my two books through the press simultaneously, and straining
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