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Letter From John Muir To Miss Harwood, 1913 Dec 31., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Miss Harwood, 1913 Dec 31., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez California,
Dec.31 1913
Dear Miss Harwood:
Many thanks for your kind letter. Though the park destroyers by disgraceful means have managed to get their bill through Congress, the battles we have fought for the Yosemite Park during the last twelve years have not been in vain. The whole country has been aroused to the danger all our parks and playgrounds are exposed to, and invasions like that of San Francisco are hardly to be looked for in future. Anyhow we have done the best we could and must now turn to other work.
With all good New Years wishes …
Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 31., Sarah Muir Galloway
Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 31., Sarah Muir Galloway
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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and are now at Ginter Park. and are enjoying their home there very much, she says they feel more at home there than any place they have been since leaving Port Norfolk and they like the people about them.
I also had a letter from Alice, Dan's wife, She wrote for both Dan and herself as he very seldom writes us a letter. I suppose partly because he is so busy. They were all well and the little girl is old enough to attend the kindergarten now. I have not heard from Mary for some time but they were …
Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 31., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 31., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Home Dec 31, 1913.
Darling Helen
Your letter of the 28th full of good news makes me happy, especially the eleven pounds of body strength since Christmas. We are all about as usual here, Mrs Smith better, Mr Raap seems to be recovering slowly from a paralytic stroke, & most all of us are barking & crowing with colds. Almost constant rain or fog. I've been been watching the weather for a chance to go to Goldberg for some New Year odds & ends but the storm continues & I'll have to write an order Wish I knew what you …
Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1913 Dec 31., Houghton Mifflin Co.
Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1913 Dec 31., Houghton Mifflin Co.
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY
THE RIVERSIDE PRESS
CAMBRIDGE. MASSACHUSETTS
December 31, 1913.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Sir:
We take pleasure in enclosing herewith a check to your order for $838.20 as a payment in full of our account of sales rendered as due January 1.
Yours very truly,
[illegible]
Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 29., Mary Muir Hand
Letter From Mary [Muir Hand] To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 29., Mary Muir Hand
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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you and you might be interested in looking at.
We were sorry to know from our daily paper that Congress has granted to San Francisco a right to the water of Hetch Hetchy valley and knowing how you opposed the petition we at least partly realize your disapppointment - as
Dec 29 1913
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My dear brother
John,
May the New Year bring you happiness is your sister Mary's wish for you.
No doubt your Christmas was a merry one if the day was spent with a daughter and grandsons. Either daughter and her sons and all their merriment …
Letter From John Muir To Kellogg [Family], 1913 Dec 27., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Kellogg [Family], 1913 Dec 27., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Dec. 27, 1913
Dear Kelloggs Three
Many thanks for your kind hearted greetings. Tell darling Jean the kiss she sent came very fast to me over the hills for kisses have wings and fly far and never die and the make old folk young again.
As to the loss of the Sierra park valley it's hard to bear. The destruction of the charming groves & gardens the finest in all California goes to my heart. But in spite of Satan & Co. some sort of compensation must surely come out of even this dark damn-dam-damnation The post order is …
Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 23., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 23., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[in margin: Remember me to the Judge & Mrs & Mr Funk Sen. & that fine girl daughter.
The fifty is for the babes. Ever Your faithful devoted fater
John Muir]
Home, Dec. 23, 1913.
Darling Helen.
The weather is cold & wet here; rainy and wild at times and I often wonder how much colder & wilder it may be on your desert - a favorite race-course for storm winds - while you are trying nest-building. Write & tell me quick that in some way wild as the winds you are managing to keep the family snug & warm. …
Letter From Margaret Rae Lunam To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 23., Margaret Rae Lunam
Letter From Margaret Rae Lunam To [John Muir], 1913 Dec 23., Margaret Rae Lunam
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Westfield Dunbar Decr 23d 1913
My dear Cousin John
I received your letter with enclosed order for 100 dollars yesterday. I will cash it & you may be sure it will brighten & cheer many a poor home & for my half of it do accept my heartfelt gratitude, many a grateful tear rolled down my dear Mother's cheek when she used to get it & she wd say John Muir is good to me, when you are so kind I feel I must let you know what our little income is, it is a little over 2 pounds …
Letter From Emily O. [Pelton] Wilson To John Muir, [1913 ?] Dec 22., Emily O. Pelton Wilson
Letter From Emily O. [Pelton] Wilson To John Muir, [1913 ?] Dec 22., Emily O. Pelton Wilson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Emily Pelton
[1]
Pasadena Dec 22nd
493 E. Walnut St.
Dear old friend
I have just arrived in Pasadena and find that you have remembered me by a copy of "Your Boyhood" days. You dear dear John. you cant think how pleased I am to have the book.
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and I spent last summer East and just returned by way of Chico and Oakland.
Come and see your old time friend who thanks you so much for your remembrance.
With love and Christmas greetings from a sincere friend
Emily O Wilson
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We shall so enjoy reading it. I …
Letter From Eleanor Pomeroy To John Muir, 1913 Dec 17., Eleanor Pomeroy
Letter From Eleanor Pomeroy To John Muir, 1913 Dec 17., Eleanor Pomeroy
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
75 West Rutland square,
Boston, Massachusetts.
December 17, 1913
My dear Lover-of-Nature;
May I thank you most heartily for your kind message concerning your playground and prayground? I appreciate it deeply, especially at this season when the harmony of things is peculiarly close. In your California flowers bloom; here in Massachusetts branches are bare but the message that they bring to me is as divine as are your flowers that I love so well....
I want to tell you how much I have enjoyed the storyof your boyhood and youth; it is here on my desk -a borrowedcopy and only …
Letter From W. A. Meane To John Muir, 1913 Dec 16., W. A. Meane
Letter From W. A. Meane To John Muir, 1913 Dec 16., W. A. Meane
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
SEATTLE, Wash.,
Dec. 16, 1913.
Mr. John Muir,
MARTINEZ, Calif.
My dear Mr. Muir:
It is hardly likely that you will remember a boy of sixteen or seventeen to whom you granted the privilege of the use of your room in the University of Wisconsin during noon hour. Even if I mention my name, Will Mears, it may not revive any memories; still, I have the pleasantiest memories of you and have watched your career all these years. I tried twice to meet you in San Francisco, but without success. I have read your books, and have only lately finished …
Letter From Marion R. Parsons To John Muir, [1913 ?] Dec 15., Marion R. Parsons
Letter From Marion R. Parsons To John Muir, [1913 ?] Dec 15., Marion R. Parsons
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
My Dear Mr. Muir:-
The Atlantic Monthly came promptly and we thank you very much for it as well as for the friendly words of your letter. When the book has taken shape we hope you will come again to the "high house". Maybe when the stormy nights come and the wind blows cauld, and blows your lantern out on the way to supper, you will think of us
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snug and fast in the warm belt!
Seriously we would suggest that if at any time you feel like returning to your Berkeley workshop, we could easily enough make …
Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To John Muir, 1913 Dec 15., Joanna Muir Brown
Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To John Muir, 1913 Dec 15., Joanna Muir Brown
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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we have heard it from others He looks old and worn, even though he seems to have a good degree of vitality; but I hate to see him try a new place at his age even though I do think Lincoln has a most trying climate. It is much hotter in summer and much colder in winter than here in Virginia.
The girls are working hard and long in the office, and Bernice and I are in about our usual health.
We unite in love, and best wishes for holiday happiness.
Affectionately
Sister Joanna
Dec 15 1913
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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 13., John Muir
Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Dec 13., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Home Dec. 13, 1913
Darling Helen,
I'm very glad you are getting well again & all the family & affairs prosperous. As for Yosemite Park, the destructive Raker bill has been railroaded through Congress but we still hope the President will veto it.
Anyhow Ive done my best and am now free to go on with my own work. The book now on hand is Alaska.
We are all about as usual. Tom & Wanda are away most of the time on plans & affairs I know nothing. I'm somewhat run down for want of exercise, proper food, and exhausting …
Letter From John Muir To Merrill Moores, 1913 Dec 11., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Merrill Moores, 1913 Dec 11., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Original in possession of Mr. Merrill Moores
Martinez, Cal.
December 11, 1913.
Dear Merrill Moores:I am glad to get your letter on the Hetch Hetchy bill, though the appeal to your senators could not have reached them before the bill was passed.
Do you plan to come to the 1915 great show at San Francisco? It would be a great pleasure to see you then or at any time to recall dear auld lang syne Indiana days.
With love to all the family,
Ever faithfully your friend,
John Muir.05629
The Pacific Weekly, December 10, 1913, University Of The Pacific
The Pacific Weekly, December 10, 1913, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
Letter From John Muir To [Charles] Moores, 1913 Dec 10., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Charles] Moores, 1913 Dec 10., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Original in possession of Mr, Charles Moores
Martinez,Dec.10,1913
Dear Mr. Moores:
Many thanks for coming to our help in the Yosemite Parkfight.
Your name calls up unnumbered fondly cherished memories. How glad I would be to see you. Perhaps you may coma to the great 1915 show. If you do you mast come straight to my house, which is less than two hours from the show grounds.
Remember me to all the family.
Ever faithfully yours,
John Muir.
Letter From John Muir To George A. Plimpton, 1913 Dec 9., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To George A. Plimpton, 1913 Dec 9., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject toThe terms on back here of. Which agreed to
Dec. 9, 1913.
To George A. Plimpton,
70 Fifth Are., New York City.
N. Y.
Regret notice of dinner to be given in honor of Robert Underwood Johnson came too late for mail. In all the battles fought for the preservation and right use of our forests and parks he was always in the front,untirable undiscourageable. No matter what other burdens, civic, literary, editorial etc. were piled upon him he was always ready and able for the heaviest park and forest work. I first met …
Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [1913] Dec 8., Betty Averell
Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [1913] Dec 8., Betty Averell
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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December 8th
[letterhead]
Dear Mr Muir
It is almost time to send you Christmas greeting. That I will defer tho [All?] I can attach, a sprig of Holly! We've had our first flurry of snow today. It is a delight to have this a true heavenly sign of this Christmas season. Shops, people presents seem so very expressive of the earthly
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& material world!
If you could know what joy your books brought to the little bride & her good scotch groom you would indeed be happy too! "The Mountains of California" I saved to give Dorothea …
Letter From John Muir To [Margaret] Lunam, 1913 Dec 5., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Margaret] Lunam, 1913 Dec 5., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, California
December 5, 1913
Dear Cousin Maggie Lunam
With this I'm sending 100 dollars Half to yourself, half to the poor of Dunbar with my best wishes for a happy new Year
This winter I hope you may escape bronchitis which has so often troubled you.
We are all about as usual
Be of good cheer dear Cousin Heaven bless you
Ever yours affectionately
John Muir
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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1913] Dec 5., Katharine Hooker
Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1913] Dec 5., Katharine Hooker
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Rome, Dec. 5.
My dear Mr Muir
This ship represents your three friends starting off for stranger lands. Constantinople and Cairo, think of it! We join my brother and his wife on the 10th and leave Italy together.
Marian and Eellie are quite excited. I am interested, but not to that point. I am really curious to see whether Egypt will weave a spell
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round me, such as it seems to have done to many of my friends. Our love goes to you and best wishes for the coming year.
May you march to victory in the Hetch Hetchy …
Letter From John Muir To [Melville B. Anderson], 1913 Dec 4., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Melville B. Anderson], 1913 Dec 4., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez Dec 4. 1913.
I'm delighted to learn that your days of exile are drawing to a close Your grand Dante done according to your own heart. I rejoice with you and make haste to assure you there can be no trouble about the publication of the book for I'll gladly bear all the expense.
You know how I sympathize with you in the loss of beloved Browne. Your tribute to his memory must surely have been lost and yet it seemed strange that in his son's letters to me you who knew him best and loved him him most …
Letter From G. Frederick Schwarz To John Muir, 1913 Dec 2., G. Frederick Schwarz
Letter From G. Frederick Schwarz To John Muir, 1913 Dec 2., G. Frederick Schwarz
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
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Had your life's story then been written I should have wished to ask you more about those wonderful mechanical inventions, which then I only knew of in the vaguest way. Now, as I read about them more fully, I am surprised at this novel expression of your life and its interests; and my surprise is the greater because, surely, it is only rarely that literary mastery and poetic
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Brookline, Mass.
December 2nd, 1913.
Dear Mr. Muir:
When I sent you a letter some six weeks ago I did not foresee that I should so soon have occasion to …
Letter From Bro. Willibald To John Muir, 1913 Dec., Bro Willibald
Letter From Bro. Willibald To John Muir, 1913 Dec., Bro Willibald
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Villa De La [Salle?], Martinez
Christmas 1913
Mr John Muir
Dear Sir
At the approach of the joyful festival of Christmas I always think of friends and acquaintances that I hold in the highest esteem, and having had the pleasure of visiting you on two occasions lately and being most cordially and pleasantly entertained by you, I take the liberty of sending you this card with my best wishes that you may have many a happy Christmas still on earth, and many a glad New Year.
Very sincerely,
Bro. Willibald
Letter From Julius C. Birge To John Muir, 1913 Dec 1., Julius C. Birge
Letter From Julius C. Birge To John Muir, 1913 Dec 1., Julius C. Birge
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
December 1, 1913.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.
My dear Mr, Muir:-
Your valued favor of November 22nd is received, and I take pleasure in mailing to you a copy of the book referred to. I was almost tempted to wait a week or two, at which time I would have been able to mail you a copy of the second edition, but that is not material. I do, however, enclose with the book a Foreword with my picture sent as a proof, and it is the only material change to be made.
If you have a copy of one …
Letter From John Muir To [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1913 Dec ?., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1913 Dec ?., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
(December 1913)
Dear Mrs Osborn; here I think are the verses you wish me to write out and which I often quoted at blessed Castle Rock.
"Life is too short to waste
In critic peep or cynic bark,
Quarrel or reprimand:
Twill soon be dark;
Up! Mind thine own aim, and
God speed the mark!"
From Ralph Waldo Emerson's poem entitled "To J. W." The first line is "Set not thy foot on qraves"-
Ever affectionately yours
John Muir
California.
December
1913-
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Letter From Charles W. Stoddard To John Muir, 1913 Nov 29., Charles W. Stoddard
Letter From Charles W. Stoddard To John Muir, 1913 Nov 29., Charles W. Stoddard
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
Nov 29 1913
300 W. 72d St.
Society for the Conservation of National Parks,
Mr John Muir Prest
I thank your society for literature about Hetchy Bill &c I have been in the valley and several other times in California. I have written earnestly to President Wilson & to Senator Root, both of whom I know personally, urging the preservation of H Hetchy and have also urged many others to do the same. This is a commercial age. The beautiful temples of Egypt and the East, the Alpine glories of Switzerland, the falls of Niagara have all become the …
The Pacific Weekly, November 26, 1913, University Of The Pacific
The Pacific Weekly, November 26, 1913, University Of The Pacific
All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly
No abstract provided.
Letter From John Muir To [Anna R.] Dickey, 1913 Nov 26., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Anna R.] Dickey, 1913 Nov 26., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Original letter returned to Mrs. Anna R. Dickey]
Martinez, Nov. 26, 1913.
Dear Mrs. Dickey:
What a glorious wild reviving summer you and brave Donald have had in the cool fragrant woods of the North. How glad I'll be to see you and hear your story.
I'm writing this note to find out whether you have yet returned to your snug nest in the Pasadena oaks. I had a letter from Mrs. Hooker a week or two ago. The whole family, I fancy, will be soon on their way home. I think we are going to win H. Hetchy fight. …
Letter From John Muir To [Eliza] Wolfendon, 1913 Nov 26., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Eliza] Wolfendon, 1913 Nov 26., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
(Original letter in possession ofMrs. Eliza Wolfenden, 1009 KennedySt.,Oakland,Cal.)
Martinez, Cal.,
Nov. 26, 1913.
Dear Mrs. Wolfenden:
I thank you for your kind reassuring letter of the 12th inst. on the Raker Hetch Hetchy bill. A great majority of all the best men and women active in national affairs are coming to our help in defence of public health and recreation parks, and all signs now indicate, as far as I can read them, that the destructive Raker bill will be defeated in the Senate, but its proponents are working hard and so must we to the finish.
Here is …