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Letter From Hugh R. Dehauk To John Muir, 1913 Apr 23., Hugh R. Dehauk Apr 1913

Letter From Hugh R. Dehauk To John Muir, 1913 Apr 23., Hugh R. Dehauk

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Thanking you in advance I remain:

Sincerely your admirer,

Hugh A. De Haven.

April 23, 1913.


(Apr. 23, 1913)

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Hill School

Pottstown

Pennsylvania

[letterhead]

John Muir:-

Dear Sir:-

I am making a collection of books signed by their authors, and for a long time I have been very anxious to get your signature in one of your books which I have. It is a little inconvenient to send a book so far for a signature, but you will oblige me greatly if you will but sign the enclosed card and mail it to me in the envelope which …

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Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Hooker], [Ca. 1913 Apr 22]., John Muir Apr 1913

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Hooker], [Ca. 1913 Apr 22]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[April 28 191[3?]]

Martinez, Monday

Dear friend.

Here is Prof Anderson's address
Mr Melville B Anderson
Via Giovan Battista Amici
Florence, Italy
c/o Maquay & Co.
That queer red flowered plant with one stamened tubular spurred flowers is Red Valerian (Centranthus ruber Nat. Order Valerianaceae), from Southern Europe.
Your visit was dolefully short, but so are all love-folks, even the lifelong ones.

Ever faithfully

John Muir


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Letter From Fay Hancock Sellers To John Muir, 1913 Apr 20., Fay Hancock Sellers Apr 1913

Letter From Fay Hancock Sellers To John Muir, 1913 Apr 20., Fay Hancock Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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her beloved desert. When I last saw her she said she thought of going back. I was so anxious to see her and her babies. Muir particularly - for he was such an interesting little tot. Mrs. Keith has written to me twice recently and has given me a cordial invitation to visit her. I could not accept now, but later I may run

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Pasadena

April 20 - 1913

Dear friend, Mr. Muir.

I am still in the land of sunshine and flowers but how long I will be here is a question that puzzles me. I fully …

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Letter From D. C. Galbraith To John Muir, 1913 Apr 19., D. C. Galbraith Apr 1913

Letter From D. C. Galbraith To John Muir, 1913 Apr 19., D. C. Galbraith

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mason City Iowa April 19th 1913

Mr John Muir

Dear Friend

we got Back to Iowa Safe and well and we enjoyed Seeing you all very much for as you Said when we left you at our age we can not expect to meet Many More times in this world But we hope to Meet you all in the Better world where Parting will be no More we went from your place to Santa cruz and Made a Stop and

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Seen the Big trees at that Place then we went from their to Pacific Grove and had a …

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Letter From (Miss) Harriet Geithman To John Muir, 1913 Apr 17., Harriet Geithman Apr 1913

Letter From (Miss) Harriet Geithman To John Muir, 1913 Apr 17., Harriet Geithman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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strikes root in our Washington soil. It gives me the keenest delight to express to you but a small part of the appreciation I feel. "Muir's Lamp" on Mt. Ranier is no more merely a resting place under a ledge of rock.

With sincerest regards, I am

(Miss) Harriet Geithman

#312 Boston Block

Seattle, Wn.

April 17-1913.

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Apr 17 1913

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

On our Seattle Mountaineers' hike last Sunday, we were discussing your books and our President, Prof. Meany suggested that I write you my appreciation of your rare contributions to our …

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Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1913 Apr 16., J. E. Calkins Apr 1913

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1913 Apr 16., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Lordsburg April 16, 1913.

My Dear Mr. Muir:_

A day or so ago the mail brought me from Houghton Mifflin Co., a beautiful Copy of your beautiful book, "The Story of my Boyhood and Youth", with a card inscribed "with the Compliments of the Author". A most valued treasure, and a most delightful surprise. I am sure you would have felt a degree of satisfaction if you could have seen the reception the whole family gave this charming arrival.
These are busy days, so I have not had time to advance beyond the 33rd page, which reeks of blood …

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Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1913 Apr 16., J. E. Calkins Apr 1913

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1913 Apr 16., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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which of these 2 things gives me the greater pleasure. Possibly the being personally remembered. That is the subtlest and most seductive form of flattery, and I own that it is a style of compliment that takes me completely captive. I simply cannot thank you enough.
I am the veriest Poor Oliver that ever was. When you are treating me to one of your outpourings you will always find me coming up and crying for more. I suppose if you were to write and publish one book on end of another I should still be hungry. Certainly I …

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The Pacific Weekly, April 16, 1913, University Of The Pacific Apr 1913

The Pacific Weekly, April 16, 1913, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To [John Muir], 1913 Apr 14., Katharine Hooker Apr 1913

Letter From Katharine Hooker To [John Muir], 1913 Apr 14., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

April 14

My dear friend

Thank you so much for the beautiful portrait. I like it greatly. You see how much easier it is for photographers to satisfy your friends than mine! You don't even like the little picture I sent you last. But behold what I am enclosing this time--just what you ask for, a photograph by Dassonville. Do you like this any better?

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He took a great many negatives and this one was the best
You know I shall be only too pleased to have some copies of your new book to give to …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Apr 10., John Muir Apr 1913

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1913 Apr 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Apr. 10, 1913

Darling Helen

I'm so glad you're going back home to the desert the only place you seem able to keep well in.
I hope you are settled ere this & that your health is already beginning to mend. Spare no expense in helpful servants. For if you keep on working night & day with your children & husband cooking sweeping waiting on the table etc etc as you have been doing all will soon come to a sad end.
Therefore give heed to your devoted father.

Send me a few words very often

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[letterhead]

April …

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Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1913 Apr 9., Sarah Muir Galloway Apr 1913

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1913 Apr 9., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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inventions illustrated and brought out so well, they were all so wonderful. Your desk with the wonderful machinery that did the work required so well seems one of the greatest. I have a copy of it that you penciled and gave me. in [those?] early days. Though you did so much of that and other work under difficulties that seemed stern, later on Father saw the mistake and urged Mary and Joanna to govern their children by love and not by fear. With love to you I am Affectionately

Your Sister Sarah.

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[in margin: I have wondered about …

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Letter From John G. Manuel To John Muir, 1913 Apr 8., John G. Manuel Apr 1913

Letter From John G. Manuel To John Muir, 1913 Apr 8., John G. Manuel

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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on stones polished smooth by the tides coming and going, till you reach the edge of the water and tangle. Then at your right is a rocky shelf about 6 feet high and you climb up a slippery face to find up there a steep pool, not very large round, but full of beautiful specimens of sea weed, and clean caller saut water. I feel sure you have been up beside it. I have often wondered how it came to be formed there. I have been home thrice since coming here, and each time I have gone up and …

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Letter From Thomas Price To John Muir, 1913 Apr 7., Thomas Price Apr 1913

Letter From Thomas Price To John Muir, 1913 Apr 7., Thomas Price

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY,EXECUTIVE OFFICES,
ALEX. MILLAR, SECRETARY. 165BROADWAY.

THOMAS PRICE, ASSISTANT SECRETARY. NEW YORK, April 7, 1915.

Mr. John Muir,Martinez,California.

My dear Mr. Muir:-

I received on Saturday a copy of the first part of what I hope will eventually prove your completed "auto-biography"• I had, of course, read the various sections of it as they appeared in the Atlantic Monthly. I notice that all the criticisms appearing in the various magazines and newspapers around here are decidedly favorable, and an amateur like myself feels that he has nothing to say after reading all that the experts think about …

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Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1913 Apr 3., John Muir Apr 1913

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1913 Apr 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1913

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Martinez, Apr. 3, 1913.

Dear Mrs Hooker,

I'm glad you're all going to take a travel rest It will help to blot the past and heal cruel heart-sores. Marian too will get the rest she so sorely needs and has so bravely won. For faithfull Ellie too the trip is just right
I would enjoy going with you, but enjoyment of this sort has never been mine and I suppose never will be. all perhaps for the best. I would like to see Athens and Rome & a few of the Greenland and Antarctic ice-floods; then I'd willingly …

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Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To John Muir, 1913 Apr 2., Joanna Muir Brown Apr 1913

Letter From Joanna [Muir Brown] To John Muir, 1913 Apr 2., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

2426 Floyd Ave

Richmond Va

My dear brother John:-

I seem to have a poor supply of writing paper, but I do not believe it can hinder me from writing you a letter, for I have been reading the entire afternoon Your "Incomparable Yosemite" and I must tell you how much I like it while it is still thrilling me with its music. I have read the general description of it, the wonderful winter scene, the earth quake storms. A good deal about the trees and flowers; then I went and got out your other two books to compare your …

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Letter From Rose S. Taylor To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Rose S. Taylor Apr 1913

Letter From Rose S. Taylor To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Rose S. Taylor

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Apr. 1913)

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Calif.

Permit me to say to you that the "Story of my Boyhood and Youth" has found a great place in our house and in our hearts.
We gave it to our son Paul, who has entered the university. The book is full of inspiration and courage and the atmosphere

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of the early Wisconsin days. We are Wisconsin people and are familiar with the scenes of the book. I'm glad you wrote this book. I'm prouder than ever of the U.W.
Pardon me if this letter is an intrusion on your time.

Very …

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Letter From Florence Scripps Kellogg To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Florence Scripps Kellogg Apr 1913

Letter From Florence Scripps Kellogg To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Florence Scripps Kellogg

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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returned to Detroit recently. We took a trip to Honolulu this spring & while there, I wrote a couple of verses which she set to music. If it is ever published, or in proper form, I will send you a copy to remember us by.
With kindest regards & best wishes for all good things for you,

believe me ever sincerely your friend

Florence Scripps Kellogg

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(Apr 1913)

[letterhead]

Altadena

My dear Mr. Muir:-

How can I thank you fr your generous gift & sweet thoughtfulness? I have just received thro' Vronman your book telling of your boyhood …

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Letter From Emma K. Wilcox To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Emma K. Wilcox Apr 1913

Letter From Emma K. Wilcox To John Muir, [1913 Apr]., Emma K. Wilcox

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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for this "soaky" delta has almost eclipsed for the time being, our courtesy to our friends. and now that it is over, the Lord only knows what the town is coming to.
Thanking you for the beautiful book with which we are delighted, I am

Very truly yours

Emma K. Wilcox

Martinez, Wednesday.

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(Apr., 1913)

My dear Mr. Muir:-

Had it not been that we intended calling upon you at once, this acknowledgement of your kind remembrance, would have reached you days ago.
I was surprised and delighted with

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the "Story of your boyhood", which was …

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Letter From Anna R. Dickey To John Muir, [Ca. 1913 Apr]., Anna R. Dickey Apr 1913

Letter From Anna R. Dickey To John Muir, [Ca. 1913 Apr]., Anna R. Dickey

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Mrs Dickey]

[letterhead]

Dear Mr Muir,

I have been rescued from life in a city hotel by dear Marion Hooker so will be with her for my visit in San Francisco and until I can get in to the Mendocino place which

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is full up now. I didn't want to miss word of or from you by having given the Hotel Stewart address so drop this line hastily on way to train. Hoping to see you while in the north

Sincerely

A. R. Dickey

San Rafael Heights

No word comes as yet from the little photographer

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Letter From J[Ames] L[Ouis] Gillis To John Muir, 1913 Apr 1., James Louis Gillis Apr 1913

Letter From J[Ames] L[Ouis] Gillis To John Muir, 1913 Apr 1., James Louis Gillis

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

J. L. GILLIS, LIBRARIAN M. J. FERGUSON, ASSISTANTCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARYSACRAMENTOTRUSTEESA. H. HEWITT, President, Yuba CityCHARLES S. GREENE OAKLANDBRADNER W. LEE LOS ANGELESALLEN B. LEMMON SANTA ROSAR. M. RICHARDSON SACRAMENTO

Anril 1,1913.

John Muir,Martinez, Calif.

Dear Sir:-

We have read with much interest of your new book wThe story of my boyhood and youth". We would greatly appreciate an autograph copy of this book for preservation as it will be of great interest and value to future students, and those interested in the biographies of our most prominent Californians.

Sincerely yours,

State Librarian.EG/GKADDRESS ALL CORRESPONDENCE TO THE STATE LIBRARIAN, SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

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Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1913 Mar 31., Houghton Mifflin Co. Mar 1913

Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1913 Mar 31., Houghton Mifflin Co.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 31, 1913.

Mr. John Muir,Martinez,Calif.

Dear Mr. Muir:

We have your letter in reply to ours in regard to the write-up by George Wharton James of you and your book in "Out West."
So far as we are concerned there are only two courses, -to send the book, or not to send it. We cannot of course control what Mr. James may write in a 16-page article. We assume from your letter, however, that you would prefer to have the book sent on the chance that he would write it up properly rather than not to sent it. So …

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Letter From John Muir To Ina Coolbrith, 1913 Mar 31., John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To Ina Coolbrith, 1913 Mar 31., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 31, 1913_

Dear Ina Coolbrith

Add my name to your committee if it will do any good. But I'm so busy & know so little about any sort of committee work that I can be of no practical use beyond wishing you well

Faithfully Yours

John Muir

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Letter From James Whitehead To John Muir, 1913 Mar 31., James Whitehead Mar 1913

Letter From James Whitehead To John Muir, 1913 Mar 31., James Whitehead

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hot Springs Ark. 3/31/13

My dear Mr Muir:-

Your delayed letter is to hand, and while I wrote you from a leave of duty I had no thought of you doing what you have & deeply regret the expense & inconvenience entailed.
With the more fortunate & intelligent there is a craving for sympathy when in pain & trouble. With my Uncle it was a mania, while my father was not insensible to this feeling he abstained from expressing it in words; to him it would have been an exhibition of weakness as unmanly as tears.
To win words of …

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Letter From John Muir To Ina Coolbrith, 1913 Mar 31, John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To Ina Coolbrith, 1913 Mar 31, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 31, 1913
Dear Ina Coolbrith
Add my name to your committee if it will do any good. But I'm so busy + know little about any sort of committee work that I can be of no practical use beyond wishing you well
Faithfully yours John Muir

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Letter From Anna R. Dickey To John Muir, [1913] Mar 30., Anna R. Dickey Mar 1913

Letter From Anna R. Dickey To John Muir, [1913] Mar 30., Anna R. Dickey

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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shown in your Father's treatment of his boys pains me but perhaps inured you to the hardships you were to meet on mountain and glacier in later life. All physiques could not have endured burdens such as were put upon you. On the other hand we seem to have swung the pendulum far to much the other extreme and youth today is weakened by indulgence and lack of reverence and the finer fiber it seems to me.
Donald is getting off on a two months trip to Ojai and desert tomorrow under contract to Mr. Damson. he sold

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Letter From John Muir To Osborn [Family], 1913 Mar 29., John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To Osborn [Family], 1913 Mar 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 29, 1913

Dear Osborns, Many thanks for your immortal good wishes. Every Osborn word goes straight home to my heart making new love-rings like the season rings of trees. All my looks eastward are colored with blessed Osborn memories
I'm hard at work in my den, going nowhere writing Alaska notes of travel.
The boyhood book was published two weeks ago but the booksellers here are not supplied with copies. I ordered a copy to besent you direct from Houghton Mifflin Co. when I get a lot I'll autograph send you as many as you like.
My love …

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Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M H. Trout, 1913 Mar 27 ., John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M H. Trout, 1913 Mar 27 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

"To explore, enjoy, end render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast: to publish authentic information concerning them: to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountain."

SIERRA CLUB 402 MILLS BUILDING San Francisco. Cal.

Board of Directors-1911-1912
Mr. John Muir. President .... Martinet
Prof. A. G. McAdie. Vice-President . San Francisco
Prof. J. N. Le Conte. Treasurer . . Berkeley
Mr. William E. Colby. Secretary . . San Francisco
Prof. Wm. F. Bad`e. . . Berkeley
Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg . Stanford …

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Letter From Mrs. W[Illia]M Lyon To John Muir, [1913] Mar 27., Mrs. William Lyon Mar 1913

Letter From Mrs. W[Illia]M Lyon To John Muir, [1913] Mar 27., Mrs. William Lyon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 27
1913

Grass Lake Mich,

Mr John Muir:-

I have just finished reading your book to my son--"The Story of my boyhood and youth." I read to him while he eats breakfast. And I told him his opportunity was different from yours, even if we are just plain country people. The book was most interesting and we much admired the boy and his [work?] - the "home-loving boy". My people came from Scotland - and this June we - my son 12 years old this month and his father and myself - expect to go to

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Letter From John Muir To [Enos A.] Mills, 1913 Mar 27 ., John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To [Enos A.] Mills, 1913 Mar 27 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 17, 1913.

Dear Mr Mills:

With great pleasure I'll send you a copy of my Boyhood as soon as I can. The book has not yet reached this side of the continent tho it was published on the 15th of this month.
I'm glad you never weary in well doing. We have another big Hetch Hetchy fight on our hands. The San Francisco park plunderers, are going to Congress with lots of money to try to get the valley in fee simple. The Sierra Club counts on your help.

Faithfully Yours

John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To Florence Merriam Bailey, 1913 Mar 27., John Muir Mar 1913

Letter From John Muir To Florence Merriam Bailey, 1913 Mar 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

"To explore, enjoy, and render accessible the mountain regions of the Pacific Coast; to publish authentic information concerning them; to enlist the support and co-operation of the people and the Government in preserving the forests and other natural features of the Sierra Nevada Mountains."
Board of Directors-1911-1912
Mr. John Muir, President . . . . Martinez Prof. A. G. McAdie, Vice-President San Francisco Prof. J. N. Le Conte, Treasurer . . . Berkeley Mr. William E. Colby, Secretary . . San Francisco Prof. Wm. F. Bade . . . . . . Berkeley Prof. Vernon L. Kellogg . . Stanford …

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