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4 management of the Club illegible d its many employees. I did not desire either position - as they tie me down too close
to Manila and I was anxious to get on wherever an opportunity should come and see more of the islands. I have the promise
of a little trip next Sunday to an interesting mountain town near the south end of the Laguna de Bay - In December or January
I hope, if the regiment? be still here in Manila, to take a few weeks trip to the mountains in the north of Luzon, armed with
a camera and yes a few good pictures of some of the interesting scenes along some of the trails of our former Campaigns. Early
in the coming year, a general 1 Cuartel diacritic de Espana diacritic , Manila September 21, 1904. My Dear Friend.
I wish to thank you for your book on the Mountains of California which you so kindly sent me. It has been a source of great
pleasure to me and I have had more genuine enjoyment from reading your many beautiful descriptions of mountain - forest, place
and animal life, then any book has given me for a long time. In fact I think that more than 03444