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Your letter about my book was especially grateful. To know that you like my settings is a substantial comfort. I had worked
on the handbook so long that when it was done I felt almost as if my usefulness was? over, but the work that after all I like
best, and had put aside for it, was on the country itself, so it is peculiarly comforting to have you feel that I have something
left to say. How to say it to interest nature lovers? in general, and yet get in the wayside science that I want in is the
difficult question. We were all taken by storm? by your grand canyon article. I am thankful that you have done it. No one
else could have expressed the canyon. Mr. Bailey joins me in hearty New Year wishes to you all, Yours sincerely, Florence
M. Bailey