Martinez, July 3, 1913File1913Dear Mrs Osborn:Warm thanks thanks thanks for your July invitation to blessed Castle Rock. How it goes to my heart all of you must know, but nae\u27s me! I see no way of escape from the work piled on me here - the gatherings of half a century of wilderness wanderings to be sorted & sifted into something like clear useful form. Never mind, for, anywhere, everywhere in immortal soul sympathy, I\u27m always with my friends, let time & the seas and continents spread their years and miles as they may.Ever gratefully faithfullyJohn Muir.The books you mentioned were sent by mail yesterda