1 DAVID DOUGLAS PUBLISHER 10 Castle Street Edinburgh Decr 5 1904 My dear Mr Muir Another year has nearly gone
and before it ends I wish to acknowledge your kind gift by? Mr Murdock of your daughters portraits. Let me congratulate you
upon the possession of the originals. What would our households be without the cornerstones . I hope you will bring them across
to see my fathers? country, and to let them see how Edinburgh looks in 1904. I send by the same mail a little volume for M
illegible 03474 2 written by Re illegible of an old friend of mine. Professor Masson.- Murdock give a good account of
you all; he enjoyed his trip to America very much which was a feat for a man of his age, but he appears to be none the worse
- I had heard of you before he came back through the last volume of the B illegible A illegible Club. where President Roosevelt
tells of his holiday in the Yellowstone country. - - one of the best volumes in the Club series - Your old friend Willie (in
spite of or rather as a warding off his asthma) still indulges in his love for mountain climbing.