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Letter From Francis George To John Muir, 1895 Dec 30., Francis George
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, 1895 Dec 30., Francis George
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Valona Dec 30th 95
Mr John Muir
Dear Sir
I enclose Ck for 21 00/100 which is due you for rent to Jan 1st 96 for house on lot. 1 B. H. 12 00
" " " " 2 " " 9 00
house on lot 7 has ben vacant since Nov 1st. And I also enclose statements for lots sold & rents received since our last settlement since Nov 17th 1893.
I have only charged to 4% for collecting sent. the total amount due me to date is $103 20/100. please & examine & see that everything is O. …
Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 26., Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 26., Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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last. I wonder when you will be able to visit us again. I have about given up all hope of ever seeing Louie here.
I am as ever Affectionately
Yours Sarah
[1]
Portage, Wis.
Decr 26th /95
Dear brother John
Your letter and order was received and today I had it cashed. To Mother I handed five dollars. To Annie and Joanna their portions, to also to Ethel, Bessie, and Bernice Celia and Grace I will send tomorrow and to Anna G. E. the first opportunity. so you will probably hear from all of them soon. In this way …
Letter From Catharine H. Hittell To John Muir, 1895 Dec 25., Catharine H. Hittell
Letter From Catharine H. Hittell To John Muir, 1895 Dec 25., Catharine H. Hittell
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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San Francisco
December 25th 1895
Dear friend Mr. Muir
My love for California's beautiful forests compells me to write to you my fears about the new Committee on Public Lands appointed in the present House of Representatives.
I write to you because I know that you are the best friend of our forests and of the other natural beauties of California. My fear for the forests raises from the fact that speaker Reed of the House has appointed on his Committee on Public Lands Mr. Bowers of Southern California.
Enclosed please find what Mr. Bowers
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says in …
Letter From [Author Unknown] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 23., Unidentified
Letter From [Author Unknown] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 23., Unidentified
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Somers, Dec. 23rd. 1895.
Mr. John Muir,
Your book “The Mountains of California” has given such pleasure to one reader that she wishes to express gratitude to the author. My trip was a limited one and taken many years ago, but so far as ray experience went, your book confirms and revives my impressions. It was read with keen enjoyment and sympathy and many another will follow its pages with the same zest. The lines were not inspired by the book, but perhaps they will be in touch with it. My name has no significance and so it is not …
Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Dec 20., Joseph Leggett
Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Dec 20., Joseph Leggett
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
December 20th, 1895
John Muir Esq.
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir,
Your letter of October 18th, 1895, though so kind and courteous, gave me and the other members of our Lecture Committee a pang of disappointment. Mr. E. A. Denicke since then had the pleasure of hearing you speak before the Sierra Club, and at the next meeting of our Committee he exclaimed: "Oh if we could only get Mr. Muir to give that talk to the members of our Institute!" I have felt all along as though I could not give you up. Many years ago I read your …
Letter From Earl Marble To John Muir, 1895 Dec 19., Earl Marble
Letter From Earl Marble To John Muir, 1895 Dec 19., Earl Marble
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO
Dec 19, 1895.
Professor John Muir
My dear Sir--
I do not know whether you will remember me or not; but I met you once in 1889 at the house of Mr. Swett in San Francisco, and was introduced to you by his lovely daughter Emily, since deceased.
My table last summer had on it your interesting book, "The "Mountains of California," of which Imade a notice and from which I made extracts, which I inclose to you, thinking you might like tosee them.
-Very respectfully yours,
Earl Marble
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Letter From J. E. Mathewson To John Muir, 1895 Dec 15., J. E. Mathewson
Letter From J. E. Mathewson To John Muir, 1895 Dec 15., J. E. Mathewson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
Dec. 15th, 1895.
Dear friend Muir
I hope you will excuse me for the long delay in replying to your kind letter of the 30th of April.
It was placed carefully aside in my desk at the office to await a favorable opportunity to reply to same, but unfortunately every time it appeared to me until now my time & attention were demanded on pressing business matters. I hope that you are not thus so much taken up with worldly affairs. However I might feel contented now without business worries, but should
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very much like to try it …
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[illegible] Yosemite
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Martinez, Dec. 13. 1895
My dear Johnson,
I'm pegging away at Yosemite & forest affairs & interest in a general way seems to be growing though it is hard to get any definite thing done. I think our members of Congress will support any reasonable forestry bill & I am looking for the appearance of one that we can all work for. How goes the battle with you heavyladen worker Let me have a line ere long
Best wishes for the New Year Blessings big and many O.
Ever Your friend
John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Dec. 1, 1895
My dear Mrs Sellers,
I'm sorry to hear you are not likely to come our side the continent this year. Hotel Green is said to be a good shelter though the Raymond is smoke, but Mr Sellers business I fear will be the most insurmountable difficulty. So Keith & I will have to pick out a sketch for you instead of waiting to have you do it yourself.
I was in Pasadena a week or two ago & met Mr Rust who showed me many morters, arrowheads, baskets & other odds & ends of a vanishing …
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.], 1895 Dec 12., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.], 1895 Dec 12., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
sends me a copy of Picturesque Cal as gift
Martinez, Cal. Dec 12, 1895
My dear Lukens,
I send you today by express a copy of Picturesque California, also a copy of same to Muir M. McKelsey whose address is Pacific Brass Works Los Angeles. Please drop him a line & tell him to call for his book.
In this book I have four chapters the best of which is Mt Shasta to which I call your attention, also to Mrs Carrs on Los Angeles.
I'll send photo of the children later All my memories of my visit to you …
Letter From F.B.Perkins To John Muir, 1895 Dec 7., F. B. Perkins
Letter From F.B.Perkins To John Muir, 1895 Dec 7., F. B. Perkins
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
532 - 24th St
Oakland Dec 7, 1895
Dear Mr Muir,
On the mantel shelf of the room where I write are the pictures of your children whom I have come to almost reckon as my own, & to think that their smiles belong to myself personally.
And along with this has grown my desire to see & talk with their father once more. Do let me know when you will be in the vicinity again. If possible do come here & see us: the latch string reaches out to the street. Or if you cannot do this let me …
Letter From Luther B. Yaple To John Muir, 1895 Nov 15., Luther B. Yaple
Letter From Luther B. Yaple To John Muir, 1895 Nov 15., Luther B. Yaple
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
LUTHER B. YAPLE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ROOMS 7 AND 8, HOWSON BLOCK.
Chillicothe, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1895.[/89?]
Mr. John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir;-
Upon my desk lies your book, "The Mountains of California", which I have just read and re-read with the greatest possible interest. Your book is so delightful, and I am so much pleased and in-instructed by it, that I felt I should express to it's author my gratitude and add my voice and word to the many who have doubtless ere this, expressed to you personally and by letter, their high appreciation of …
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1895 Nov 12., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1895 Nov 12., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Nov. 12, 1895.
My dear Mrs. Carr:
Your kind note just received. I hope to get to Pasadena some time after the rush of grape troubles are over for the season and of course will see you all with great pleasure. But you will probably be in S. F. before my southern flight is made and we will look for a visit from you. We are all pretty well. Mrs. Strentzel the invalid is much better than she was a few months ago and will be very glad to see you. It was on my last summer's ramble in …
Letter From John Muir To Jeanne Carr 1895 Nov 12, John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Jeanne Carr 1895 Nov 12, John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Nov 12, 1895
My dear Mrs Carr
Your kind note just received I hope to get to Pasadena some time after the rush of grape troubles are over for the season & of course will see you all with great pleasure But you will probably be in S.F. before my southern flight is made and we will look for a visit from you. We are all pretty well. Mrs Strentzel the invalid is much better than she was a few months ago. I will be very glad to see you. It was on my last summers ramble in the …
Letter From A.C. Mcclurg & Co To John Muir, 1895 Nov 12., A.C. Mcclurg & Co.
Letter From A.C. Mcclurg & Co To John Muir, 1895 Nov 12., A.C. Mcclurg & Co.
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
A. C. McClurg & Co.
117, 119, and 121 Wabash Avenue.
corner madison street
CHICAGO .November 12...1895•
Mr. John Muir,
C/o Century Company,
New York City, N .Y.
Dear Sir:-
Since the publication of your book "The Mountains of California," we have received inquiries from various sources for titles and prices of your other books, but we regret that we do not find in our regular catalogues any information on the subject. Thinking it possible that you may have published some volumes which are not listed in the regular way, and which are not generally known to the bookselling trade, …
Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Nov 11., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Nov 11., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Cal. Nov. 11, 1895
My dear Mrs Sellers,
The Century Co., a month or two ago, asked me for a photo of myself for use in a pamphlet & I sent them the one you made. How do you like the reproduction?
Are you coming hither this winter? I have not heard a note from either Mr. Sellers or Al. though flitting time is nigh. Keith is glorious now. He has just moved into fine new rooms with his whole flock of paintings & is fairly swelling with triumphant selfcontent, wealth & fame. Yet of course as old-man-boyish as …
Letter From J[Ames] Bryce To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Nov 9., James Bryce
Letter From J[Ames] Bryce To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Nov 9., James Bryce
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Nov. 9, '95 (?)
Dear Mr. Johnson:
I am not sure if I have ever told you how much disappointed I was at missing Mr. John Muir. As soon as I got his card at the House of Commons I went out to look for him, but he had vanished, and the card bore no address so I could not write to him. I had greatly wished to see him. The means provided for finding members at the H. of C. are so bad that I wish any friends of yours coming to see me there would always put their …
Letter From Fay H.Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Nov 4., Fay H. Sellers
Letter From Fay H.Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Nov 4., Fay H. Sellers
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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which we think he greatly merits. Pleaes give him our very kindest regards and congratulations. I am "just dying" to see the picture you speak of tho' I do not think Mr. Muir that you and Mr. Keith ought to give us the picture as you have both done so much for us. Please remember me very kindly to Mrs. Muir your dear little girls and Mrs Strentzel.
Yours very truly
Fay H Sellers
[1]
Chicago
11-4-95
[letterhead]
My dear Mr Muir,
Having noticed in the Century Magazine the reproduction of my photograph of you, I was about to …
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Oct 29., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Oct 29., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Oct. 29, 1895
My Dear Mr Johnson
This will introduce to you Mr J. E. Runcie He loves the Sierra parks & reservations, knows them well, & all about their management & mismanagement He is now trying to get the military authority extended over the reservations so they may have the same Salvation as the National parks, & I know you will assist him all you can
Ever Yours
John Muir
[calling card enclosed]
Mr. J. E. Runcie
[envelope enclosed]10017
Letter From C[Harles] S.Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 28., Charles Sprague Sargent
Letter From C[Harles] S.Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 28., Charles Sprague Sargent
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 28, 1895.
My near Mr. Muir:
Many thanks for your note or the 21st which reached the Arboretum this morning. You have a way of saying things which give me the greatest pleasure because I know that you understand the subject and are sincere - qualifications possessed by few of my correspondents
Of course my summer's outing is still in embryo.When ittakes shape you shall be the first to know as I am most anxious to have the benefit of your society. I shall be very glad to avail myself of your …
Letter From Susan M.Gilroy To John Muir, 1895 Oct 19., Susan M. Gilroy
Letter From Susan M.Gilroy To John Muir, 1895 Oct 19., Susan M. Gilroy
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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little trips together & a very happy time in Edinburgh. they are so kind one can't help being happy with them. indeed all the Dunbar people are the same. Mrs Dick & the Pinkerton people & lots more. Jane Mather was here the other night. She is very well & a good [school?]
I have been reading with great interest your writings in "Picturesque California" they make me long to see the country myself. Very many of my cousins have read your "Mountains of California" with great interest & hope when you come back again to see you too. …
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1895 Oct 18., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1895 Oct 18., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Thanking mo for 150 Photos Others previous to this are lost
Sierra Nevada & San Gabriel Mts
Martinez, Oct. 18, 1895
Reproduced from the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for reference only. Permission necessary for reproduction
My dear Mr Lukens,
Your kind letter & generous package of photographs arrived safely & have thus placed me deeper than ever in your debt. I knew that north Tuolumne country in a general way--knew that its glacial phenomena were on a grand scale & especially heavy but the details you give me in the pictures & letter are …
Letter From Katharine [M.] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Oct 17., Katharine Merrill Graydon
Letter From Katharine [M.] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Oct 17., Katharine Merrill Graydon
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
2530 College Ave.
Berkeley, Cal.
Dear Mr. Muir,
I am wondering if you are all well, and if it would be convenient for Miss Thompson and me to come up next Saturday afternoon (the 26th) and stay until Tuesday? I have been wanting to come, to tell you of [homeland?] as well as to hear what the mountains have been saying to you. [illegible] this is really the fist day it has been possible to drop things and get away
Please let me hear in time to make arrangements with Mina Thompson at Palo Alto.
With love to all,
your …
Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Oct 15., Ann Gilrye Muir
Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1895 Oct 15., Ann Gilrye Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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I send kind love to you and your family and also to Margt & John and all their family as they have very kindly remembered me at all times
Annie unites with me in kindest love to you all
Affectionately
Mother
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Portage october 15th 1895
Dear John
I gladly received your letter telling me of your arrival safely at home, after your trip to the wild woods, about the same time I received a letter and Photo from Mrs Lunam of herself & daughter from Edinburgh where they were spending there vacation, as a family
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Letter From Mariana Bertola To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Mariana Bertola
Letter From Mariana Bertola To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Mariana Bertola
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
Oct. 14, 1895
Mr John Muir,
Dear Sir;
Our pupils read of the Muir Glacier in their Geographies and in the newspapers, and when they are told that John Muir lives near us they gaze in astonishment, especially when he is pointed out to them while he is passing by. Now, for the sake of the rising generation, I ask you this favor, will you, some Friday afternoon, give the school (the Grammar Grades) a talk on Alaska, or the Yosemite? Of course, we cannot pay you for your trouble--indeed, a talk like that to our grammar pupils could …
Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Joseph Leggett
Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Oct 14., Joseph Leggett
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
October 14th, 1895
John Muir Esq.
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir,
The Board of Trustees of the Mechanics' Institute of this City are endeavoring to arrange a course of lectures on Scientific and literary subjects for the coming winter, and the Committee having the matter in hand have instructed me to write to you and ask you to give us a lecture some time during the season upon any subject you may prefer. If you can comply with our request, I can assure you, your kindness will be gratefully appreciated.
Yours very respectfully
Joseph Leggett
Chrman Comm. on Lectures B. …
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Oct 12., Robert Underwood Johnson
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Oct 12., Robert Underwood Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Stockbridge, Mass.,
Oct. 12, 1895.
My dear Muir:
I am most interested and obliged by your long letter concerning Yosemite affairs, and I hope to make use of the facts you have given to the advantage of the Valley -- sooner or later.
I have been spending a month's vacation in Stockbridge -- and this last week I have been visiting here at the country house of Joseph H. Choate, a beautiful big house built by Stanford White and overlooking the Housatonic Valley. I like the region greatly, and hope to have a country home here within two or three …
Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 10., Charles Sprague Sargent
Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1895 Oct 10., Charles Sprague Sargent
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., October 10, 1895.
My dear Mr. Muir:
I am very much pleased with your note of the 1st inst. If people realized how much pleasure such words sometimes give they would write them oftener. Few such come in my way, and when they are written by a fellow who knows trees and the difficulty of learning much about them, they are the more welcome.
I am now about to take up seriously the Conifers and so shall be entering your province. You may expect therefore to hear from me often and to receive …
Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1895 Oct 4., Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1895 Oct 4., Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[in margin: If I find there is any special need I will let you know as you wish]
Portage, Wis.
Octr 4. /95 -
Dear brother John,
Your letter has been received, and it made me glad to see your handwriting once more and glad again to know of your pleasure in going over the old ground, studying and working with all the old enthusiasm, and finishing the truths wrought out so long ago, made doubly clear by the vast experience gained through the studies of later years.
But truly John I thought that now you are "growing old you …
Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1895 Oct 1 ., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, California
October, 1, 1895
My dear cousin,
Coming down from the High Sierra, where I have been sauntering & sunning for six weeks, I found your welcome Edinburgh letter & Gilderoy both of which I was glad to get, & I thank you very much for the kind thoughts & care for me, & the trouble you took to copy the Gilderoy. I think it is very interesting, & this is the first I have seen of it. You must have enjoyed the grand old town & the fine sermons you heard, & I hope the change of air …