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Letter From John Muir To B[Etty] A[Verell], 1911 Mar 2., John Muir Mar 1911

Letter From John Muir To B[Etty] A[Verell], 1911 Mar 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, March 2, 1911/My dear Betty Averell: Your letter came perilously hear charming me across the continent leaving all cares to gang tapsalteerie, as Burns sings. Yes, I learned that Will was going East (2)or(3)weeks ago when at Los Angeles I called to see him and get tidings of you. I'm glad to hear of the tribute to the memory of Mr. Har[riman]. None I know deserves more. The whole country is his monument. You mention your aunthood and mother's grandmotherhood, while I have been grandfathered thrice. My daughter Wanda has a pair of boys 2 and 4 years of …

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My First Summer In The Sierra., John Muir Mar 1911

My First Summer In The Sierra., John Muir

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

338 EGALITE know a lady when she saw her. She was going to get married to-morrow and wanted a girl as would be satisfactory from the start. No, she would n't pay more than three-fifty, but them servant girls weren't worth more. She knew! Louise hated her at sight, and all the other waifs seemed to hate her too, for an insulting glance down the line was followed by a chorus of whisperings. 'A shop-girl till jes' a week ago an' now she wants a lady to live out with her! My land!' the Negress muttered, rolling the whites of …

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Letter From Frank P. Flint To John Muir, 1911 Mar 1., Frank P. Flint Mar 1911

Letter From Frank P. Flint To John Muir, 1911 Mar 1., Frank P. Flint

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible]MR. TALIAFERRO, MR. SMITH, MD., MR. SIMMONS, MR. HUGHES. MR. JOHNSTON,SOL. N. SHERIDAN, CLERK.CARL V. KING, ASS'T CLERK.United Stated SenateCOMMITTEE ON INTEROCEANIC CANALS.March l, 1911.My dear Mr. Muir:I am sending you herewith for your information copyof bill introduced by me to set aside the Kings-Kern addition to the sequoia National Park in California as proposed by the Sierra Club of California. I am likewise enclosing a copy of a letter received by me to-day from the Secretary of the interiorwith reference to the bill. I asssre you that I have been veryglad to be of service to those interested in …

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Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, [Ca. 1911 Mar]., John Muir Mar 1911

Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, [Ca. 1911 Mar]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

-2-Wm. E. Colby.Persistent rumors I notice are being published in the newspapers concerning the resignation of the Secretary of the Interior, and we Should get as many letters as possible from members of our club and from all we can influence to write endorsing his administration and encouraging him in every way to stand up bravely to his work, paying no attention whatever to the cowardly attacks of disappointed muck-rakers, and the few good people who have been misled by the press.Faithfully yours.[illegible]To William E. Colby.302 Mills Bldg.,San Francisco, California.

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Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Hooker], [Ca. 1911 Mar]., John Muir Mar 1911

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine Hooker], [Ca. 1911 Mar]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[ca March] 1911Dear Mrs HookerWhat a fine heart-bath you are having! When I returned from the station Mr Hooker was entertaining Mr Burroughs & party with the star photographs millions of suns full of unquenchable radium. Nevertheless the weather here is far from warm. though as you know there are spots here & there that never grow cold. Sunday I went to Pasadena with my friends the Sellers intending to stay only a day, but staid a week to try to get some Yosemite out of me & some sound sleep in. Was successful. The second morning slept like death …

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Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [1911 ?] Feb 24., Betty Averell Feb 1911

Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [1911 ?] Feb 24., Betty Averell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]visits. Do come East and let us renew [them?]. You will have to come East to reach the Amazon and coming halfway is even [better?] that no way at all!Soon the frolic architecture of snowy winter will be in [reins?], [once?] [illegible] we'll have all the butterflies and the bumblebees and the red buds on the maple trees to amuse you.[illegible] and I were so surprised[1]325 East AvenueRochester NYDear Mr Muir:-The western New York blizzards that we've been indulging in all winter tend to make us long more and more for the warmth of South American sunshine! You haven't forgotten …

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The Pacific Weekly, February 22, 1911, University Of The Pacific Feb 1911

The Pacific Weekly, February 22, 1911, University Of The Pacific

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Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1911 Feb 21., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1911 Feb 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Feb. 21, 1911Dear Mrs Hooker.I'm at the old lone house on the hill. Came up Monday night for a little unYosemite rest & to attend to some odds & ends of business.How you were missed at 325 by at least one you would know.I'll probably return to garret work about the end of the week.With love to all who love youEver faithfullyJohn Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie K.] Bidwell, 1911 Feb 21., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To [Annie K.] Bidwell, 1911 Feb 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb 21, 1911My dear Mrs Bidwell,Your charming holiday greeting was received yesterday, for I've been away several months in Los Angeles writing a book.I'm delighted to hear from you after so long a silence. What a glorious multitude of happy memories your brief post card message recalls & how much I should enjoy a long heart to heart talk with you. In the meantime write me a long letter telling all about yourself & Sallie & the Hookers as to health & welfare during these last eventful years.Remember me to all who love you. Ever faithfully your friend,John Muir

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1911 Feb 21., Robert Underwood Johnson Feb 1911

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1911 Feb 21., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 21, 1911ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON,EDITOR.CLARENCE CLOUGH BUBL,ASSOCIATE EDITOR.My dear Muir:I am very glad to hear from Scott that you and he are en rapport in regard to your "Mountains of California" and the Yosemite book. You know the latter was my proposition and I have all along understood that that was on the stocks for us. It would break my heart to have that go to anybody else, whatever you might do with other books. But I believe that with Scott in a liberal mood toward you we can do as well by you as any other publisher in America.Do …

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1911 Undated Feb 20 Katherine Hooker To Jm P1, Katherine Hooker Feb 1911

1911 Undated Feb 20 Katherine Hooker To Jm P1, Katherine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

3255 Pacific Ave

S. F. Feb 20

Dear Mr Muir

I am very glad to hear from you as well as through several bulletins from Alice that you are really better if you had not heard I should have had to deal severely with

"[Page 2]

You when I put back – lock up that Palace Garret I suppose and send you off to a canon.

I shall see how you work I hope Thursday morning.

I have had a happy visit here, no [ ] [ ] all warm and unclouded. It has done me good.

I’m …

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Letter From V[Ernon] Kellogg To John Muir, 1911 Feb 17., Vernon Kellogg Feb 1911

Letter From V[Ernon] Kellogg To John Muir, 1911 Feb 17., Vernon Kellogg

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYDEPARTMENT OF ENTOMOLOGY AND BIONOMICSStanford University, Cal.,February 17, 1911.Dear John Muir:Mr. Johntauir,I have just written to all of the California Congressmen and Senators, urging the legislation referred to in your postal card of late date.As ever,Warmest regards[illegible] KelloggMr. John MuirLos AngelesThe Wonderful Child is well perfectly well and growing in [grace?] with the day, Charlotte, well [illegible] mother!04962

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The Pacific Weekly, February 15, 1911, University Of The Pacific Feb 1911

The Pacific Weekly, February 15, 1911, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To Henry F. Osborn, 1911 Feb 15., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To Henry F. Osborn, 1911 Feb 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LOS Angeles, Cal., Feb. 15, 1911325 West Adams StreetProfessor Henry F. Osborne,Columbia UniversityNew YorkDear Mr. Osborne:-No end of obstacles jumped up in my way last fall when I was planning to be with you and the Harrimans, for glorious visits andsome most interesting Hetch-Hetchy work.I have been shut up in a garret this winter, writing on threedifferent books, one of which, a little journal, is now in the press,a volume of autobiography, and a book on Yosemite Valley and otherYosemites. The greater part of the time I have been half sick or moreWith the "grip" as usual, but I hope …

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Feb 13., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Feb 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 13, 1911. 325 West Adams Street.My dear Mr. Colby:-Replying to your two important letters of February7th and 8th, I see that we have a lot of hard work on hand, but I thinkwith the help of all good people that we will still be able not onlyto preserve the integrity of our grand Yosemite Park but also to getthrough most of the legislation that you refer to. I have writtento all our representatives and our two senators, urging them to support the measures we want carried, and have sent out to friends all the cards you …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte H.] Kellogg, [1911?] Feb 11., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte H.] Kellogg, [1911?] Feb 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Feb 11 [1911?]Dear Mrs KelloggI'll take our first train which if on time leaves here at 6.45 & arrives S. F. about 8.30 so I may catch your 9.00.I want to go to the Araucaria imbracata forests & across to Brazil & to South Africa & to Stanford Kellogg. The last seems most difficult of the the three should I live through them all then "it's home & it's home & it's home I would be" if ever I'm to have fixed home this side the great river.Ever YoursJohn Muir

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Letter From Arthur H. Fleming To John Muir, 1911 Feb 8., Arthur H. Fleming Feb 1911

Letter From Arthur H. Fleming To John Muir, 1911 Feb 8., Arthur H. Fleming

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

IOO3 ORANGE GROVE AVENUE, PASADENA.February 8,1911.My dear Mr. MuirDr. Scherer handed me your letterto him of the 4th instant, and I am delighted you can be one of the party of gentlemen to meet Mr. Roosevelt at dinner at my home March 21st,at six o'clock; and it will give me great pleasure if you will also he my guest at the lecture the same evening.Cordially yours,[illegible]Mr. John Muir,325 West Adams Street,Los Angeles, California.

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Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1911 Feb 8., Houghton Mifflin Co. Feb 1911

Letter From Houghton Mifflin Co. To John Muir, 1911 Feb 8., Houghton Mifflin Co.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 8.: 1911.Dear Mr. Muir:We take pleasure in sending you enclosed a circular of our Travel Books in which you will find your book included.We are distributing these circulare ourselves, and have also arranged with Raymond & whit[illegible] Company to mail 25O0 to intending tourists.Very truly yours,Houghton Mifflin Co,Mr. John Muir,Martinez, Cal.

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Letter From Helen Fitzgerald Sanders To John Muir, 1911 Feb 7., Helen Fitzgerald Sanders Feb 1911

Letter From Helen Fitzgerald Sanders To John Muir, 1911 Feb 7., Helen Fitzgerald Sanders

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]5[illegible] North Henry AvButte, MontanaFebruary 7 1911Mr. John Muir,Los Angeles, CaliforniaMy dear Mr Muir:Your letter came as a delightful surprise to me and I wish you might know how deeply I appreciate your kind words concerning my book. "Trails Through Western Woods." The critics have been generous in their praise of this, my first volume and I am grateful to them all,04956[2]but no book review I have received is as gratifying to me as your letter.I did not know that you had visited Lake McDonald in your wanderings and I am glad if my descriptions have revivified your recollections of …

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The Pacific Weekly, February 7, 1911, University Of The Pacific Feb 1911

The Pacific Weekly, February 7, 1911, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1911 Feb 4., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1911 Feb 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 4,1911, 325 West Adams Street,Mr. Wm. E. Colby,302 Mills Bldg.,San Francisco, Cal,Dear Mr. Colby:-I think our Club ought to render all possible assistance in making the Rainier National Park accessible to the public by means of roads and trails suggested in the enclosed paper. I am only now recovering from a pretty severe seige of the "Grip" and am up to my eyes in Yosemite work, so that I do not feel able to do much personal work in this fight for the fifty thousand dollars appropriation desired. The outing plans for next year seem all …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte H.] Kellogg, 1911 Feb 4., John Muir Feb 1911

Letter From John Muir To [Charlotte H.] Kellogg, 1911 Feb 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 4, 1911. 325 West Adams Street.Dear Mrs. Kellogg:-Helen is here and day before yesterday she got a boy, a finely modeled little fellow who promises to be as delightfully gurgly and as lively a climber up of knees as your own little Charlotte Jean. Do write to her. She is very happy and comfortable in her room at the California Hospital here. I have seen her every day for the last three or four weeks and she is as merry and light-hearted as ever.I have been expecting to hear that Chrlotte Jean's little plate was finished …

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My First Summer In The Sierra., John Muir Feb 1911

My First Summer In The Sierra., John Muir

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

MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA 171 MY FIRST SUMMER IN THE SIERRA BY JOHN MUIR June 18, 1869. ΓÇö Another inspiring morning; nothing better in any world can be conceived. No description of Heaven that I have ever heard or read seems half so fine. At noon the clouds occupied about .05 of the sky, white, filmy touches drawn delicately on the azure. The high ridges and hilltops beyond the woolly locusts are now gay with monardella, clarkia, coreopsis, and tall tufted grasses, some of them tall enough to wave like pines. The lupines, of which there are many …

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The Pacific Weekly, January 31, 1911, University Of The Pacific Jan 1911

The Pacific Weekly, January 31, 1911, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Jan 30., John Muir Jan 1911

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Jan 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 30, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Dear Mr. Colby:-Here I am again. Mr. Scott, the President of the Century Company, called on me today and told me that he was going to get out a new edition of "The Mountains of California." He is to restore the gilt edges that he scraped off some time ago, and the gilt lettering, and wants to add a dozen or so of new full page illustrations. I don’t think it will be safe to allow him to choose those illustrations so I would like to have you send me about two …

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Letter From John Muir To Henry Meade Bland, 1911 Jan 27., John Muir Jan 1911

Letter From John Muir To Henry Meade Bland, 1911 Jan 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Henry Meade Bland PapersBancroft LibraryLos Angeles, Cal., Jan. 27, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Mr. Henry Meade Bland,San Jose, Cal.Dear Mr. Bland:-Many thanks for your kind New Year greeting, and the two copies of the Pacific Short Story Club Magazine with your lively, suggestive poem "Reincarnation." It is always pleasant to be remembered by one's friends.I have been in Los Angeles more than a month writing a little book on "Yosemite and Other Yosemites," which I hope to get off my hands before spring.Hoping that your New Year will be generously filled up with the work that you like best, I am,Faithfully …

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Letter From John Muir To Gleason [Family], 1911 Jan 27., John Muir Jan 1911

Letter From John Muir To Gleason [Family], 1911 Jan 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(In response to a letter and Christmas card giving a picture of the California Globe Tulip, Calochortus alba.)Los Angeles, Cal., Jan. 27, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Dear Mr. and Mrs. Gleason.Hearty thanks for your Christmas greetings and good wishes.I am glad to see by the first page proofs of "My First Summer in the Sierra" that you are to furnish the photographs, since you know and love the region so well and have so good an eye for what is most telling. The Calochortus alba, which I suppose is to form one of the full-page illustrations of the book, I think …

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Jan 27., John Muir Jan 1911

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1911 Jan 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles. Cal., Jan. 27, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Mr. William E. Colby,302 Mills Bldg.,San Francisco, Cal.Dear Mr. Colby:-I thank you for the sketch of the territory desirable as an addition to the General Grant and Sequoia National Parks, and for your information on the king's River carriage road and the trail from the canyon up Copper Creek and down to Tehipite.I noticed in the Chronicle a few days ago a revival of the Blue Lakes scheme for & water supply for San Francisco. What do you know of this new company? Is there anything likely to come of it that …

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Letter From James A. B. Scherer To John Muir, 1911 Jan 27., James A. B. Scherer Jan 1911

Letter From James A. B. Scherer To John Muir, 1911 Jan 27., James A. B. Scherer

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mr. John Muir, LL. D.,Martinez, California.THROOP POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEPASADENA, CALIFORNIAPRESIDENT’S ROOMJanuary 27, 1911Dear Mr. Muir:Mr. Arthur H. Fleming, the Vice President of our Board of Trustees, who owns a beautiful home on Orange Grove Avenue adjoining that of Adolphus Busch, has extended, through me, an invitation to Mr. Roosevelt to

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Letter From John Muir To Lilian Gillette Cook, 1911 Jan 26., John Muir Jan 1911

Letter From John Muir To Lilian Gillette Cook, 1911 Jan 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los. Angeles, Cal., Jan. 26, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Miss Lilian Gillette Cook,Long Lea Farm,Amherst, Mass.Dear Madam:-The specimen you sent me is, as you guessed, the Sequoia sempervirens. It is extremely unlikely that the tree from which you oh tailed the specimen is growing naturally in Portland. These trees have been planted all over the states of Oregon, Washington, California, and in suitable localities in Europe, Australia and New Zealand. I saw specimens of both the sempervirens and gigantea nearly one hundred feet high at Christ Church, New Zealand. Only a few small groves are known to be growing naturally in …

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