1419 Taylor St
San Francisco
Nov 20^th 1875

My dear Sir,

I write now chiefly to Thank You for the kind & painstaking interest - You are taking in my friend Keith, & to ask whether your sister is still on our coast, this day. How do you all do. Has your sister quite recovered from the Yosemite trip which proved so satisfying. I have just of the quartz sands and gravels of your deep placers. Keith has just received a check from Wilson of Cincinnati for $2,500.00 gold for a painting 6 1/2 ft by 4, though a large price, the landscape is well worth the money.

I wish something could be done this session by your law builders for the preservation of our magnificent forests. No part of the resources of our young state is so little appreciated, too ruthless destroyed. Destruction in this particular is infinitely greater than fair use soils what forests, then how to make the most of them. But I will not weary you with these desulting remarks, no doubt you are overladen with business on the approach of the opening of your work at Sacramento.

I might call your attention to an article of mine in the November number of Harpers magazine on the living Glaciers of California. You may have seen it. Prof. Hayden writes me from Washington that he would like me to write a memoir of western glaciers for government publication. I am not however quite ready for this work.

Thanking you again for your genuine kindness to my friend Keith. I remain truly yours

John Muir

To Senator Hendricks

Administrators note: It is obvious that Mr. Muir wrote this in a hurry as there are a number of words and phrases that appear to be assumed by the reader or missing.