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Hetch-Hetchy-The Tuolumne Yosemite., John Muir

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

ΓûáΓÇó-ΓÇóΓÇó [ ' 'Γûá .3 HETCH-HETCHYΓÇöTHE TUOLUMNE YOSEMITE. The Hetch-Hetchy Valley, "that wonderful counterpart of Yosemite," as State Geologist Whitney called it, was discovered by Mr. Joseph Screech in 1850, the year before the discovery of Yosemite, when the Digger Indians held possession of it as an acorn orchard. After my first visit, in the autumn of 1871, I have always called it the Tuolumne Yosemite, for it is a wonderfully exact counterpart of the great Yosemite, not only in its crystal river and sublime rocks and waterfalls, but in the gardens, groves, and meadows of its flowery parklike floor. …

[Cover Letter, Nov. 1909.], John Muir

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

w H ┬º w in O I* w & S s> 1-1 o 0 a w l-l < > a o H w a a u w a LET EVERYONE HEIP TO SAVE THE FAMOUS HETCH- HETCHY VALLEY AND STOP THE COMMERCIAL DESTRUCTION WHICH Γûá,.' THREATENS OUR NATIONAL PARKS 1 To the American Public: The famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley, next to Yosemite the most wonderful and important feature of our Yosemite National Park, is again in danger of being destroyed. Year after year attacks have been made on this Park under the guise of development of natural resources. At the last regular session …

Letter From John Muir To [Melville Best] Anderson, 1909 Jan 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 1, 1909.Dear Mr Anderson,I'm delighted to hear from you, & I heartily thank you & Robert for your kind greetings & wishes for the new year. With all my heart I wish you the same. Come & make me a visit & bring Robert. I'm alone in the big house. You have doubtless gathered lots of health & Dante on your travels in Italy. What terrible news fills the papers from that beautiful fire land!Your Hetch Hetchy protest is [capital?] Try to get Prof. Rolfe to write one like it.Hoping to see you ere longI am faithfully yoursJohn …

Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To [John Muir], [Ca. 1909]., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]A letter from Anna [illegible] told of improved health in your valley and I trust John Reids wife and little ones continue to improve. I also hope that Wanda is in good health after her kind care of the twins as well as her own little ones Please give my love to her and also to Helen when you write or see her. I am so glad she is getting on so well in the desert.When you write please tell me a little about your trip to Honolulu - You no doubt feel that you have lost a good friend …

The Endangered Valley: The Hetch-Hetchy Valley In The Yosemite National Park., John Muir

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

LET EVERYONE HELP WMM-THE E&MOUS HETCH HETCHtaEALI,EYi ANii STOP THE COMMERCIAL DESTRUCTION WHICH THREATENS OUR NATIONAL PARKS To the American Public: The famous Hetch-Hetchy Valley, next to Yosemite the most wonderful and important feature of our Yosemite National Park, is again in danger of being destroyed. Year after year attacks have been made on this .Park under the guise of development of ..natural resources. At the last regular session of Congress the most determined attack of all was made by the City of San Francisco to get possession of the Hetch-Hetchy Valley as a reservoir site, thus defrauding ninety millions …

Letter From Jos[Eph] Black To John Muir, 1908 Dec 31 ., Joseph Black

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1760 Ellis St.,San Francisco,Cal.

Dec.31st.,1908.

Mr. John Muir,Martinez,Cal

My dear Mr.Muir:-

Enclosed herewith is a little faded flower plucked From the bridal bouquet of Miss Emma Blanchard,now Mrs. Allen; which she asked me to send you with her love and kind remembrances.
I attended the wedding last night which took place in the Episcopal Church in San Jose.There were a number of the Sierra Club members present,and all were charmed with the simplicity and sweetness of the marriage ceremony.Miss Blanchard made a charming bride and Glenn Allen acted his part like a man.I am sure we of the Sierra Club, …

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1908 Dec 30., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Lordsburg, Cal., Dec. 3o, I9o8.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Your valued letter of Dec. 2 is before me, and has been more than once in the days that have followed its arrival here. It brought good news in three respects, viz: that you are in good health, that Helen is likewise well at Daggett, and that you are steamed up and making good headway with your writing. I suppose if I were to try to tell you how glad I am of the latter I should fail, because I should be likely to put it so strongly that I should make …

Letter From Antonie Schmitt To John Muir, 1908 Dec 28., Antonie Schmitt

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco, Dec. 28. 1908

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Beg to acknowledge your esteemed favor of the 23d Inst, and wish to inform you that I have to-day mailed the 31 photographs you selected from my collection. The usual price is 25 per copy but a cheque for $6.00 will cover them entirely.I have taken particular pains to get the very best effect from the negatives in printing them and trust they will meet your approval.
Enclosed I send you a specimen of "lace bark" taken from the "Lace Bark Tree" and also a specimen of taken from the "Tissue Cactus", …

Letter From Herbert W. Gleason To John Muir, 1908 Dec 19., Herbert W. Gleason

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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HERBERT W. GLEASON
S3 PINCKNEY STREET
BOSTON, MASS.

ILLUSTRATED LECTURES
Alaska
The Canadian Alps
Yellowstone Park
In Thoreau's Country
Wild Flowers of the Rockies
Bird Life
Etc.

Boston, Dec. 19, 1908.

My dear Mr. Muir:

I sent Miss Helen the other day a few post cards which I thought she would like to send to her friends. I am sending you with this several photos which I took in the Mono Lake region and also some studies of pine cones and foliage which I made in the King1s River Canyon.
You will be interested to know that Houghton, Mifflin …

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1908 Dec 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Dec. 18, 1908Dear Mr Colby;I would have been in the City oftentimes to help in the Park fight had I not been disabled by the Grippe or a severe brochial cold. Nevertheless I've been doing what I could from here. I don't think I should go to Washington in my present state of health, & of course your business will not allow you to go. Do you know any available member of the club that we can send? Anyhow we must keep up a storm of protests in letters & telegrams & magazine articles.I enclose Mr Johnson's last letter …

Letter From John Muir To [J. E.] Calkins, 1908 Dec 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Dec. 2, 1908Dear Mr Calkins;I was very glad to get your kind refreshing letter with its cheery good tidings of your new home & work. I wish you were nearer so I might avail myself of your kind invitation, now I am compelled to work alone in the big house.When I think of moving south I see that a long hard time will be required to get my notes & books ready for shipment. I've been trying to sort my notes, & groan aghast at the vast mass. I never before knew that I was so crishingly killingly rich. …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Nov 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home Nov. 27, 1908Darling Helen,I'm [so?] glad you are enjoying such fine weather & health as your letters tell, & that the Goldberg box was all right & the Valona deed returned. Last week was all fog & rain & mud, but the last two days lovely with frosty mornings. Grapes all gone. Dave has been here two weeks or more helping Will - has returned to Pacific Grove. All pretty well. Over 30 bxs of Quinces sold from your trees, am paying taxes today. Wish I could be with you for the winter. But its hard to look after …

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1908 Nov 18 ., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Calkins]Lordsburg Calif.Nov. 18. 1908My Dear Mr. Muir: -Your charming letter has too long awaited an answer. I might have had the good manners to tell you how genuinely glad I am that you are at work on some of those things we talked about when we had the honor of meeting you in your home. Oh, I'm glad too that you had a good restful summer, and good health, and that the dear girl is making progress toward better health. May the kindly Providence that watches over the invalid have her in especial keeping.Good for "Stickeen"! How I091932shall rejoice to …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Nov 13 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 13, 1908.

Darling Helen:

All goes well here & you know how delightful to me are tidings of your brave march to health The greatest danger is from colds, keep out high winds & away from those suffering from colds or Grippe. & never go to town in stormy weather or anything like it. & keep warm especially around your lungs. Tom's away on Ham Hall's Lake Eleanor business. Wanda & the baby are well. I have Mr Schmitt a Sierra Club man typewriting. He's pretty slow but a plodder. The place here looks fine. The only weedless …

The Pacific Pharos, November, 1908, Students Of The University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1908 Oct 30., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]her trips to the mountains, only Patch the trouble up for the time, but the real trouble can not be removed until she gets out of the way of malaria just as Dan says - When you wrote about Margaret improving from out door sleeping, I just thought that would be the thing for us, for we all have too much nerves, and not enough of God's good fresh air and sunshine, I guess we will all have to finish up by coming to California for a year or two any way -With love to yourself and all the folks, …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Oct 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Oct. 16, 1908

Darling Helen,

You will see by enclosed letters that our grand old Robin Hood Merriam has gone to the better Land. One of the letters was addressed to you here.
All goes well. We had quite a shower the other day Kindest regards to the Van Ds & Fs.

& all the love Ive got for you my Darling

John Muir
San Marces Cal
Oct 8/08

John Muir Esq.
My dear Sir:

I regret to inform you of the death of Hon, J.S. Merriam in New York City, last Sunday.
He enjoyed meeting and being with …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Sep 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Sep. 21, 1908

Darling Helen,

Tom brought glowing accounts of your good health & good looks, corroborating all your own bright letters. I was just starting for the train for a promised visit to Mr Kent & so did see Mary Van Dyke; for which I am sorry For I wanted to get the chance to show how deeply I felt the debt of gratitude we owe to her father. Tom took her to the train Sunday evening & she should reach Grants Pass this afternoon.
I had a charming time with the Kents, visited the Muir Woods & …

Letter From John Muir To J.E. Calkins September 15, 1908, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 15, 1908. My dear Mr. Calkins, I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friends the Harrimans at Pelican Bay in the Klamath & have had a fine reviving time & have also got some writing done up there on that much talked of autobiography. Dictated a 1000 or 1500 pages of M.S., mostly a miserable confused mess however that will have to be rewritten again and again. I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon country & made a short excursion to Yosemite. I also rewrote & …

Letter From John Muir To [J. E. Calkins], [1908 Sep 15 ?]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 15, 1908

My dear Mr. Calkins, I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friends the Harrimans at Pelican Bay in the Klamath & have had a fine reviving time & have also got some writing done up there on that much talked of autobiography. Dictated a 1000 or 1500 pages of M.S., mostly a miserable confused mess however that will have to be rewritten again and again. I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Cañon country & made a short excursion to Yosemite. I also rewrote & …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Sep 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home, Sep. 15, 1908.

Darling Helen,

I sent a Goldberg box 4 or 5 days ago. but if the list you are to send contains things I have anticipated I'll send another.
I added a thousand dollars to your term deposit acct. in the Martinez Bank today You have quite a lot of money coming in soon.
I can't well leave now - so much busieness to look after - 3 more deeds or 4 soon to be sent you for signature & grapes to ship etc & no end of letters piling on me. But when you really need …

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1908 Sep 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

his visit with Mr. Harriman. also trip with Sierra Club
he wrote Stickeen at Harrimans at my request.

Martinez, Sep. 15, 1908.

he thanks me for finding Van Dykes for his Helen. It saved her life

My dear Mr Lukens,

I got home a few days ago from a long visit with my friend Harriman at Pelican Bay in the Klamath country. & have had a fine reviving time & also have got some writing done up there.
I also spent a month with the Sierra Club in the Kern Canon country, & made a short excursion to Yosemite I …

The Pacific Pharos, September, 1908, Students Of The University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1908 Aug 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Aug. 2, 1908.

Dera Mr Johnson:

Many thanks for your two editorials, both are capital. The Hetch Hetchy in particular every sentence rings sharp and clear like steel on steel or steal I don't see how it could be improved & all the honest decent public spirited world are with you. Verily notwithstanding your life long apprenticeship in word work you continue to improve with the years. Good for you! Well done good & faithful world servant!! As to credit in that Congress of Governors never you mind. It will rise some of these days above all the political …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1908 Jul 28., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

THE WORLD'S
WORK

FARMING

DOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO.
133-135-137 EAST 16TH STREET, NEW YORK

COUNTRY LIFE
IN AMERICA

THE GARDEN
MAGAZINE

July 28, 1908.

Dear Mr. Muir:

Since I wrote to you a day or two ago this thought has occurred to me:

I remember that you told me that there was a continual demand for some newspaper letters that were among your earliest writings. I suspect that a good deal of the matter in these newspaper letters might make a good book if you take a good part of it and get it in shape. I know very well …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Minoral King. July 24,1908

Darling Helen

We are on our way home. Camped here last night, this eve will camp at Redwood Meadows, & tomorrow expect to be in the Giant Forest. Next day will be spent in the glorious groves & then down to the lowlands & home.
I was not acquainted with the poor woman who fell from the dangerous cliffs of the Great Arroyo near our main camp at Funstan Camp. She was a teacher in the Berkeley High School, & fell in attempting an all but impossible short way to camp.
But for this accident all …

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1908 Jul 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Funston Camp July 18/08

Darling Helen :

About 100 of the Whitney party got back to this main camp yesterday & today, all except 2 having got. to the top & of course are happy & exhilarated. Almost everyone in the outing is a good tough walker & climber but none could outwalk or outclimb you when you were at your best in the ante-grip & pneumonia days, & doubtless at the speed toward complete recovery you are now making you will soon be as tough & sound as ever, & even stronger & better in every way.
I got …

Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To John Muir, 1908 Jul 17., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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temporary, and that she will soon begin to improve again She is at the University of Virginia where they are holding a Summer school, and where a good many of the friends of our girls were attending so as it is a beautiful place and high - at least above the malarial line, we thought best to send her there, as she could attend any lectures or classes that interested her and so give her something to take her mind
I saw in the last Outlook that President Roosevelt is already arranging a trip of scientific research [to?] Africa, …

Part 01 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.

Part 11 John Muir Autobiography, John Muir

John Muir Draft Autobiography, 1908

No abstract provided.