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Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1899 Jan 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 27. 1899

My dear Mr Page

My friend Dr E.R. Taylor writes me that his new book of verses is ready for publication & that he is going to offer it to Houghton Mifflin & Co. This is the book I spoke to your about last fall. I wish it good luck & therefore will be glad to hear of its acceptance by your firm.
I am pegging away at the woods amid many distracting grippy interuptions that Silva river I find a big touch rugged job.

Ever Cordially yours

John Muir

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Letter From Charles Mohr To John Muir, 1899 Jan 27., Charles Mohr

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Jan 27. 1899

Dear Mr. Muir.

I took the pleasure a couple of days past to mail to you a copy of the second edition of the Southern Timber Pines, which has been lab[illegible] issued. I shall happy if you will accept the book in kind remembrance of the hours you did spend with us in Mobile.
The present is a strange winter with, Cloudy skies, scarcely interrupted by bright sunshine, continued chilly damp weather with frequent storms and heavy rains prevails almost constintly. In consequence I am doomed to indoor life, and have more than my wanted share …

Letter From William C. Bartlett To John Muir, 1899 Jan 7., William C. Bartlett

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Porterville Cal. Jan 7, 1899

My Dear Mr. Muir -

I am moved to write to you about a matter which seems to me of great public importance. I came here last August - with a commission as Federal Forest Supervisor of the Southern Sierra Reservation (4000,000 acres or more). Last season 200,000 sheep invaded the reservation by virtue of a temporary concession made by the Secretary of the Interior. I need not relate to you the damage and desolation which these sheep have wrought? You know all about such results from personal …

The Diary Of Colonel Israel Angell Commanding Officer, 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, Continental Army, Edward Field, Israel Angell, Norman Desmarais

Primary Sources

This document includes the full text of Colonel Israel Angell's Diaries compiled by Edward Field and published in 1899. It also includes the text of three manuscript diaries from the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society in Boston, Massachusetts. These diaries were transcribed and digitized by Norman Desmarais and inserted in their proper location in Field's text. The diaries are organized here by the year of coverage rather than by the individual manuscripts as in Field's book. The five chronological sections of this combined text are also available as individual downloads in the supplemental materials section of this page.

Journal Of Oliver Boardman Of Middletown: 1777 Burgoyne's Surrender, Oliver Boardman

Primary Sources

Covers the period from September 2, 1777 to the surrender of the British army under General John Burgoyne at Saratoga on October 19, 1777. It includes the terms of surrender.

The Bridgewater Book

Histories of Bridgewater & Local Institutions

An illustrated history of the towns of Bridgewater (Bridgewater, England; West Bridgewater, Mass.; East Bridgewater, Mass.; North Bridgewater and Brockton, Mass.; and Bridgewater, Mass.) and their institutions (including the town library, State Farm, State Normal School, churches, and historical society). Essays in the book were contributed by Francis E. Howard, the Hon. Benjamin W. Harris, Bradford Kingman, John White Chadwick, Lucia Alden Bradford Knapp, Martha Keith, Theodore F. Wright, Albert G. Boyden, and Hollis M. Blackstone.

Abnormal Vapor Densities, Minnie Elizabeth Rice

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay questions Italian chemist Avogadro’s hypothesis about vapor densities, ultimately coming to the conclusion that Avogadro’s law is open to objection.

1899 Ruby Yearbook, Hiram Herr Shenk, Charles Austin Waltman, John Melville Whittock, Jacob Monroe Stick, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1899 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Determination Of Atmospheric Constituents, Ralph Ordway Brooks

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Discusses the elements of the atmosphere and its researchers, including, but not limited to, Black, Priestley, Scheele, Canvendish and Lavoisier.

Some Tendencies Of Militarism, Walter Clarke Phillips

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Explores the ways in which the concept of militarism has changed due to "modern warfare" during the years preceding 1899.

Libraries Past And Present, Lillian Mabelle George

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

This essay reviews the history of libraries, beginning with Ancient Egypt and Greece, and goes on to explore the changes that have occurred since over time, ending with nineteenth century libraries and librarians.

Tennyson's Debt To The "Morte D'Arthur", Sally Rodman Thompson

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Summary and critique of Alfred Lord Tennyson's blank verse poem, “The Idylls of the King” with discussion of the credit due to Sir Thomas Mallory’s “Morte D’Arthur” which inspired Tennyson's work.

Combustion Analysis; Estimation Of Carbon & Hydrogen, Clifford Brewster Morrison

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Documents the methods of composition analysis by Antoine Lavoisier the 18th century and the adoption and refinement of this method by Theodore V. Saussure and others in the 19th century to combustion analysis. Includes plates of measurement equipment used.

History Of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment Of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men Of 1775 From York County ; With A Full Account Of Their Movements During The Battle Of Bunker Hill And Complete Muster Rolls Of The Companies, Nathan Goold

Maine Collection

History of Col. James Scamman's Thirtieth Regiment of Foot : Eight Months' Service Men of 1775 from York County ; With a Full Account of Their Movements During the Battle of Bunker Hill and Complete Muster Rolls of the Companies

by Nathan Goold

"Reprinted From the Maine Historical Society's Quarterly"

The Thurston Print, Portland, Maine, 1899.

Letter From H[Orace] H. Walters To John Muir, 1899 Jan [?]., Horace H. Walters

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Chicago Jan 1899

John Muir

My Dear Sir

With this please find the "first fruits" of your generous contribution to the cause of the birds or what will be when sent out. This article of Mr. Dutcher's was "set up" in this form, with the intention of sending the same to all the [Agl.?] papers of the country, to serve as "copy"; it is just off the press. Just at this point (after letters had been written, and envelopes addressed to the [Agl.?] papers,) comes a letter from Mr. Lacey (Member from Iowa) saying that the bills in the Senate …

The Bradford Manuscript, Abbie Gertrude Sherman

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Summary of the Bradford Manuscript, a journal by William Bradford, English leader of the settlers of the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts during his journey on the Mayflower in July of 1620.

Quarter Centennial Anniversary Souvenir Of The Southern Illinois State Normal University, Siu Alumni Association

SIU Historical Documents

This book was published by the Alumni Association to celebrate the 25^th anniversary of Southern Illinois State Normal University. It is a good source of early university history including its founding, the burning of Old Normal, the university’s influence, biographical sketches on early university presidents, the Zetetic and Socratic literary societies, and early faculty.

Letter From James T. White To John Muir, 1898 Dec 30., James T. White

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JAMES T.WHITE & CO.,PUBLISHERS
5 AND 7 EAST 10TH ST.
NEW YORK

THE NATIONAL CYCLOPEDIA
OF AMERICAN BIOGRAPHY

Dict.J.T.W.
New York,Dec.30,1898.

Dear Sir:-

My work,as Editor-in-Chief of The National Cyclopedia of American Biography,brings me in contact with the foremost personages in the United States; and being quite a hero worshipper,I am gathering into an "Original Calendar" solely for my own pleasure and not for publication,a characteristic verse, quotation from one's own writing,drawing,or bar of music,-from the world's brightest intellects upon the date of their birthdays,and I beg to ask from you for this purpose some slight contribution from your genius …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Dec 27., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARWARD UNIVERSITY,Jamaica plain, Mass, December 27, 1898.My dear Muir:

Your letter which I got two or three days ago sounded a little sad I think. I am not surprised, however, that a man who would rush through Texas, New Mexico and Arizona without stopping even for a day to look at some of the most interesting trees in the world should be a little dejected. It is pretty evident that you cannot be trusted to travel alone and that in future I shall have to be your constant companion.
I pass my time now thinking about [illegible] and …

Workaday World, December 1898, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1898 Dec 1., Frank H. Scott

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December 1st.,1898

My dear Mr. Muir:-We have received a letter from President Jordan of Stanford University asking permission to include in a book of stories about animals your contributions The Water Ouzel and The Dog and the Glacier from The Century Magazine. As you know, the first of these is included in your book on the Mountains of California, and we hope to include the other in another book of yours yet to be published by us. Hence, President Jordan's proposed publication did not seem to us consistent either with your interests or ours, and we were obliged to …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Nov 3., Walter H. Page

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book publication of your matter.
1) You are to get on as fast as you will with the essays that we have been publishing about the National Parks, and as soon as they are done you will put them in proper order and shape for a book, the completed manuscript of which we hope to have by next spring,[illegible] so that it may be issued early next fall on our fall List.

2) Then, as soon as you conveniently can, you will turn to the preparation of a book about Alaska. As much of it as you wish we …

Letter From John Muir To C[Harles] D[Wight] Williard, 1898 Aug 8., John Muir

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A, SERIOUS MENACE.

The Express In its Issue of August 2nd spoke of the need for quick and vigorous action to save the mountain growths of this region from utter destruction. Sheep men and campers, but particularly sheep men, threaten the prosperity of these Southern California valleys more and more seriously every year, by setting fire to the forest trees, underbrush and beds of leaves which are our only protection against floods and droughts.
Rains absorbed by mountain slopes are' so much clear gain to the farmers. Those which rush down in torrents, disappearing in the sands of the …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1898 Jul 6., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

we are heartily at your service, not only anxious to put you in book form as soon as you are ready, but very eager to do so, but not willing to spoil so good a pudding by hasty cooking.
Best of all the good news that your letter brings is the hope that it gives that we may have the pleasure of seeing you here soon. Please let me know some time beforehand, so that I may be sure to be here.
Hoping that the Yosemite paper will come along at your very earliest convenience, and with all good wishes. …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 Jun 29., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass, June 29, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have from Johnson the enclosed note. He sends me one from you and another from Lacey, chairman of the Public Lands Committee of the House, from which it appears that the Senate will have to recede from its action and that the reservations are to be preserved a little longer. Lacey says,-
"The question of allowing sheep in some parts of the California reserves is one upon which there is a good deal of difference of whoopinion; some of the people there are interested in the …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1898 May 3., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,

Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 3, 1898.

My dear Muir:

I have yours of the 25th telling me of your efforts about the reservations. You or somebody has evidently put in some good work, as on Saturday all the members of the Public Lands Committee of the House agreed to oppose the Senate amendment wiping out the reservations. It won't do to stop here, however, as a few senators are strong in their determination to break up the whole reservation business and the rest of the Senate is entirely indifferent to the subject.
All I know about …

Yellowstone National Park., John Muir

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

The Yellowstone National Park. 509 THE YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK. Of the four national parks of the West, the Yellowstone is far the largest. It is a big, wholesome wilderness on the broad summit of the Rocky Mountains, favored with abundance of rain and now, — a place of fountains where the greatest of the American rivers take tbcir rise. The central portion is a densely forested and comparatively level volcanic plateau with an average elevation of about 8000 feet above the sea, surrounded by an imposing host of mountains belonging to the subordinate Gallatin, Wind River, Te.ton, Absaroka, and Snowy …

Otterbein Aegis April 1898, Otterbein Aegis

Otterbein Aegis 1890-1917

Contents: Editorial; Contest Orations; My Plans for the Future; The Struggle of Civilization; Scholarship and Country; The Mission of the College Man; This One Thing We Do; Eloquence, etc.

Letter From E. G. Miller To John Muir, 1898 Jan 24., E. G. Miller

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Waterloo Iowa Jan. 24 1898.

My Dear Sir: -

My family and I were all very gratified by the receipt of your letter of Oct. 6th. I hardly supposed that you would remember me. In the years you have been "traveling wildernesses" to unlock the secrets of nature for the benefit of mankind and writing so entertainingly of the fauna and flora of the far west, it is a little surprising to me that you have carried my name in your memory through them all.
I know something of the life of many of the boys we knew at …

Letter From Joanna M[Uir] Brown To John Muir, 1898 Jan 17., Joanna Muir Brown

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Glenside, PA

Jan 17. 1898.

Dear Brother John:

I received a letter from Sarah a day or two ago containing a P.O order for eight dollars which she said was a Christmas gift from you to myself and the children.
I thank you for your kind thought of us. May the coming year be a good one for you and yours.
We continue to like Glenside very much as we find it pleasant and healthful. We have had no severe weather Yet. most of the winter has seemed almost too mild - we are

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