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or the head of the Land Office I have written to our Senator Pinchot. Pinchot says he can do little in the matter an editorial
in the magazine would be a grand help in the N.Y. newspapers. This has been a deadly hard year for forests destruction has
gone forward without let or hindrance the outlook is discouraging. A fine J.P. Irish year. Sheep year. Grippe year I hope
you have escaped the grippe a miserable disease. Mrs Muir is down with - has been in bed a month, Try to head off those forest
destroyers in Washington Ever Yours John Muir