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[Letter To William Trout.], W. H. Trout Jan 1916

[Letter To William Trout.], W. H. Trout

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

ΓÇö*s?'l% 120 Trout Family History In due time, when the wheat crop was harvested and known to be by far the finest and most abundant of all the previous years and the price also good, you may be sure there was a thankful and happy people, who never afterwards had a renewal of any thing approaching that trying year's experience. From the foregoing the reason will be manifest why I was diverted from my preaching purpose formed at Williamsville. Paul was under necessity to preach. My necessity lay another way. I was the oldest son and my father's namesake, so …

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Naranjado 1915, Associated Students Of The College Of The Pacific May 1915

Naranjado 1915, Associated Students Of The College Of The Pacific

Yearbook, The Naranjado, The Campus, Epoch

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The Pageant Of Bridgewater State Normal School Celebrating Its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School Jan 1915

The Pageant Of Bridgewater State Normal School Celebrating Its Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

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Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Of The State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School Jan 1915

Seventy-Fifth Anniversary Of The State Normal School, Bridgewater, Massachusetts, June 19, 1915, Bridgewater State Normal School

Bridgewater State Anniversary Publications

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Descriptive Pamphlet, 1915, The Rockefeller University Jan 1915

Descriptive Pamphlet, 1915, The Rockefeller University

The Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research: Descriptive Pamphlet

History, organization and equipment

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Edward Taylor Parsons., John Muir Jan 1915

Edward Taylor Parsons., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

V SIERRA CLUB B U LLETI N, VOL. IX : ΓûáJo7m jhiitt -ew &Son Boston EDWfiED TA7LOE PSRSOHS Sierra Club Bulletin Vol. IX San Francisco, January, 1915 No. 4 EDWARD TAYLOR PARSONS By John Muir Edward Taylor Parsons, mountaineer and faithful defender of national forests and parks, was born March 15, 1861, near Rochester, New York, the eldest of a family of five. His boyhood was spent on his father's farm; in his earliest years helping to look after the bees, chickens, and lambs, and at the age of fourteen ploughing, mowing and harvesting. This simple, healthful employment from daylight …

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Letter From Henrietta Thompson To John Muir, 1914 Nov 5., Henrietta Thompson Nov 1914

Letter From Henrietta Thompson To John Muir, 1914 Nov 5., Henrietta Thompson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, November 5, 1914.Dear Mr. Muir:You were very kind and thoughtful to remember me and to send me such a lot of your "glorious" grapes. They were brought over in the afternoon just as the boys reached home from school and there was a chorus of exclamations when I got the cover off. We thought we ought to take a photograph of one of these beautiful bunches of tokays. We all send you many thanks for them and I assure you they were fully appreciated by us and some others round about here.I had an engagement with Miss Yates …

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Letter From W. Borland To [John Muir], 1914 Nov 1., W. Borland Nov 1914

Letter From W. Borland To [John Muir], 1914 Nov 1., W. Borland

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] 1."Wanda"Portola,Victoria.11 : 1 : 14.My dear Sir,I write this in a cottage by the sea, where we have come with the children for a holiday, after reading your story of your boyhood & youth. I read it through leisurely at two sittings, & haven't enjoyed a book more for long. In your other books, which I read in Dunbar I was also carried on to the end by the simplicity & directness of the style; but this is even more full of human interest that at the same time the 'Bible English', which I fancy you owe [illegible]y to …

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The Pacific Weekly, October 28, 1914, University Of The Pacific Oct 1914

The Pacific Weekly, October 28, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Letter From L. Barbezat To John Muir, 1914 Oct 24., L. Barbezat Oct 1914

Letter From L. Barbezat To John Muir, 1914 Oct 24., L. Barbezat

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oct. 24, 1914.Dear Mr. Muir:Your letter of 1st inst, reached me yesterday. I was very glad to hear again from you, and must thank you for your kind word regarding our little country and for what your people are doing for us; at present we are comparatively well off, the war has done us indirectly a great deal of har[illegible] but, we can shift along and must think of relieving those poor Belgians who, have practically lost their whole and are homeless and starving.We are preparing and getting ready to receive and maintain all those who will accept our [illegible] …

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The Pacific Weekly, October 21, 1914, University Of The Pacific Oct 1914

The Pacific Weekly, October 21, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1914 Oct 20., Charles Walter Carruth Oct 1914

Letter From C[Harles] W[Alter] Carruth To John Muir, 1914 Oct 20., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]Oakland, California, Oct. 20, 1914Dear Mr. Muir:Yours of 10th inst enclosing check for $500 received. I am not sure as to whether you considered that so beautiful and choice a publication was well worth the amount you sent, [illegible] if out of your goodness of heart you desired to make a gift to our Club House fund of the difference beyond the price of the book which is $150. If the latter is the case which I readily believe on behalf of the Club I thank you heartily for your kindness.I trust that you have fully recovered your usual health …

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The Pacific Weekly, September 23, 1914, University Of The Pacific Sep 1914

The Pacific Weekly, September 23, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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The Pacific Weekly, September 16, 1914, University Of The Pacific Sep 1914

The Pacific Weekly, September 16, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Letter From Oscar R.Coast To John Muir, 1914 Sep 12., Oscar R. Coast Sep 1914

Letter From Oscar R.Coast To John Muir, 1914 Sep 12., Oscar R. Coast

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]My plan was to spend the coming winter in Taormina Sicily and Italy - where I would find a new and interesting sketching field; but this cruel and unpardonable European war will change my plans and I shall probably again go to CaliforniaMrs Funk wrote me that she had sent my copy of "Stickeen" to you, to put your autograph in it for me; this I shall appreciate, and I hope[1]Iowa City Iowa Sept 12th 1914530 North Clinton StreetMy Dear Mr MuirI want to send you a note of greeting - and at the same time to tell you of …

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The Pacific Weekly, September 9, 1914, University Of The Pacific Sep 1914

The Pacific Weekly, September 9, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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The Pacific Weekly, September 2, 1914, University Of The Pacific Sep 1914

The Pacific Weekly, September 2, 1914, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Aug 18., John Muir Aug 1914

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Aug 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Aug. 18, 1914Darling Helen:I'm so glad you & the little ones are keeping so steadily sturdily well through this furnace August weather now I hope drawing nigh its flaming end. As for Buel he is always so well he does not come into the health account at all.I am gaining slowly once more & may soon cease to regard your desert as an insuperable obstacle in the way to you.Wanda as I suppose Buel has told you is at the hospital awaiting the birth of her 4th child. She is very well. So flourisheth the boy undergrowth Will see …

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1914 Aug 7., Sarah Muir Galloway Aug 1914

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1914 Aug 7., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]together. They have not met since Helen was a child. I wrote to Dan - and his wife some time this summer but have had no answer yet my last letter from them was in the winter, they were well and busy. The little girl was attending the kindergarten and enjoying it there. Joanna was well when last I heard and Bernice was getting on fine in her new home. I heard of your Helen's third son. You are rich in grandson's John. I am glad that her health is so good at Daggett. Trusting that you are in usual …

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Letter From P. S. Berney To John Muir, 1914 Jul 31., P. S. Berney Jul 1914

Letter From P. S. Berney To John Muir, 1914 Jul 31., P. S. Berney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

MUIR LODGELos Angeles, July 31st, 1914.Mr. John Muir,Martinez, Calif.,Dear Mr. Muir:-Allow me to thank you, in the name of the Southern California Section of the Sierra Club, for your most generous contribution to its expansion fund.We have all of the carpenter work done, and you may truthfully feel that you have contributed that portion of the work. It is the means of providing shelter for the men of our Club during the rainy months in years to come. The gift is as generous as it was unexpected, and words cannot express the feeling that we all have.With very best wishes …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Jul 17., John Muir Jul 1914

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Jul 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Friday 17th July, 1914Darling Helen, Your daily newsletters are the most enjoyed of all the mail brings me. Wanda wonders more & more over little Buel's pound of growing- Never never had she heard of such phenomenal success in child culture. Tom is stopping with her now.As to health I suppose I'm gaining a little but dont feel like traveling yet.The peaches are now beginning to ripen. Dont you want me to send you some- or anything else allowable in hospital Ever your devoted father

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Jul 11., John Muir Jul 1914

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 Jul 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home July 11, 1914.Darling Helen, I'm glad you are so happy and well and making quick recovery to perfect health. But don't, I pray you, make dangerous haste back to the desert at this hottest time of the year, at the risk of your own & the babe's life. Dont think of venturing back before the end of [illegible]d August. If you must see Muir & Stan[illegible] let Buel bring them down to you. Never mind expense either in money or absence from your family - the first I can make good, & the other you should bear for the …

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Letter From F. H. Gilove To John Muir, 1914 Jul 7., F. H. Gilove Jul 1914

Letter From F. H. Gilove To John Muir, 1914 Jul 7., F. H. Gilove

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]105, Montgomery, St.Office of R. T. HardingSan FranciscoJuly 7- 1914Dear, Mr. MuirIt is hard for me to realize that after so many years have I got the good luck of meeting you, and having a good old time hand shake, while you are are still looking strong and healthy at your plesant home near your two generations of childrenTo have heard you speak of Yosemite, Sierra Nevadas. and some of our old time friends of those days, made me feel young again, only in vague dreams have I returned to those scenes of my early days, as a boy guide …

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Letter From Fay H. Sellers To John Muir, 1914 Jun 14., Fay H. Sellers Jun 1914

Letter From Fay H. Sellers To John Muir, 1914 Jun 14., Fay H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]years pass, our hearts gone sad, thinking of the days that have been. I often think of the enjoyable time that you, my husband and I, passed in our home. Just think how many years our friendship has lasted, for it was in eighteen hundred and eighty-five, that we first met - on our way to the Yellowstone Park. I am deeply interested in your Alaska book, which will soon be finished, I trust - some-[1][letterhead]June 14 - 1914Dear friend Mr. Muir-I must not let another day pass by without telling you how pleased I was to hear from you, …

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Letter From Nelson F. Evans To John Muir, 1914 Jun 13., Nelson F. Evans Jun 1914

Letter From Nelson F. Evans To John Muir, 1914 Jun 13., Nelson F. Evans

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

JOHN K. GORE, VICE PRESIDENT AND ACTUARYWILBUR S. JOHNSON, 2D VICE PRES,AND COMPTROLLEREDWARD GRAY, 3D VICE PRESIDENTFORREST F. DRYDEN, PRESIDENTEDWARD D. DUFFIELD, 4TH VICE PRES.AND GENERAL SOLICITORWILLARD I.HAMILTON, SECRETARYC.A FOEHL, MANAGER FOR EASTERN PENNSYLVANIANELSON F. EVANS,SUPT. OF AGENTSORDINARY DEPARTMENTEIGHT FLOOR THE NORTH-AMERICAN BUILDINGPHILADELPHIA, PA.GEORGE B.SPEERASSISTANT SECRETARY June 13,1914. Mr. John Muir,Martinez, Cal.Dear Mr. Muir:The inquiry in your good letter of April 4 in reply to mine of March 10th has awaited an opportunity to refresh my memory about our pioneer Yosemite trip to the top of the North wall in 1870.I have found a diary kept by one of the …

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Letter From Melville B. Anderson To [John Muir], 1914 Jun 2., Melville B. Anderson Jun 1914

Letter From Melville B. Anderson To [John Muir], 1914 Jun 2., Melville B. Anderson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]Menlo Park, 2 June, 1914My dear Maecenas:Your kind word is cheering, & would be more so but for the disquieting hint about your health. You are most kind to think still of going with me for a short sojourn in the wilderness. You would find me a poor camper & woodsman. I have generally cont[illegible]ed to have somebody with me to do the work.-I enclose for you a page I have comp[illegible]ed with infinite [illegible]ortions & variations. Its half scriptural, half [illegible]ic arcadian charm would appeal to you --- if I have communicated it.I am getting [illegible]. My doctor tells …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 May 26., John Muir May 1914

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1914 May 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home May 26, 1914Darling Helen, I'm so glad to have your good health and happiness repeated in your bright glad letters I'm always listening for more.Our good faithful friend Mr Parsons died suddenly a few days ago of heart disease. He was one of the most active & useful members of the Sierra Club & will be sadly missed.I'm keeping well & stupidly busy. The Alaska book is consuming a lot of time & I want to finish the first draft of it before I go to the mountains. It has been too cold & wet to go sooner anyhowI'm …

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Letter From John Muir To [Marion R.] Parsons, 1914 May 9., John Muir May 1914

Letter From John Muir To [Marion R.] Parsons, 1914 May 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez May 9, 1914Dear Mrs Parsons:I'm very sorry to have to believe that Mr Parsons' illness is so serious as your letter shows. Nevertheless I shall not cease to hope that the general stock of health gained on the mountains will carry him through all his heart and throat troubles to sound triumphant health.Tom will take the typewriter to its owners, & the delay will not count for much; for after the M.S. is all arranged & ready for copying the speed will be the greater.With affectionate sympathy I am ever faithfully your friendJohn Muir

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Letter From Mary Frances Kellogg To John Muir, [1914 May]., Mary Frances Kellogg May 1914

Letter From Mary Frances Kellogg To John Muir, [1914 May]., Mary Frances Kellogg

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1] [May 1914]R.F.D. 392 Pasadena, Cal.My dear Mr. Muir:I was so sorry to know of your having had grippe this winter. I had not known of it before. Please take care of yourself. All who know you, know of you or have read your books, are the better for it, and we want your influence for many, many years to come.Mr. Scripps is much better, & is able to be taken about the house some every day in a wheeled chair. We are all hoping for his complete recovery. Thank you for your kindly thought of sending me your Yosemite …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1914 Apr 19., Robert Underwood Johnson Apr 1914

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1914 Apr 19., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

327 Lexington Avenue, N[eW] Y[ork], April 19, 1914.Dear Muir:I am to-day giving a note of introduction to you to my friend Cass Gilbert, the distinguished architect, builder of the great Woolworth building, the N.Y. Custom House, a lot of State Capitols, etc, etc. Gilbert is also a member of the national Fine Arts Commission, and it was he who suggested that we should try to get the Hetch Hetchy matter referred to the Commission, as the beautifying of the Canal Zone was. You will find him very sympathetic and a thoroughly good fellow. Mrs. Gilbert, who goes with him to …

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