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Los Angeles, Cal., June 1, 1910.
325 West Adams Street.
My dear Mr. Browne: -
Good luck and congratulations on the Dial's
thirtieth anniversary, and so Scottishly and well I learned to know
you two summers ago, with blessed John Burroughs & Co., that I seem
to have known you always.
I was surprised to get a long letter from Miss Barus written
at Seattle, and in writing to Mr. Burroughs later I proposed to him
that he follow to this side of the continent and build a new Slab-
sides "where rolls the Oregon," and write more bird and bee books
instead of his new-fangled Catskill Silurean and Devonian geology
on which he at present seems to have gane gite, clean gite, having
apparently forgotten that there is a single bird or bee in the sky.
I also proposed that in his ripe mellow autumnal age he go with me
to the basin of the Amazon for new ideas, and also to South Africa
and Madagascar, where he might see something that would bring his
early bird and bee days to mind.
I have been hidden down here in Los Angeles for a month or two
and have managed to get off a little book to Houghton Mifflin, which
they propose to bring out as soon as possible. It is entitled "My
First Summer in the Sierra." I also have another book nearly
ready, made up of a lot of animal stories for boys, drawn from my
experiences as a boy in Scotland and in the wild oak openings of

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