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Letter From John Muir Et Al. To [William H. Taft.], 1910 Dec 5., John Muir Dec 1910

Letter From John Muir Et Al. To [William H. Taft.], 1910 Dec 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible] San Francisco, Dec. 5, 1910. To the President, The Secretary of the Interior, and The Secretary of Agriculture, Washington, D.C. Sirs:- [illegible]


Letter From Hector Alliot To John Muir, 1910 Dec 1., Hector Alliot Dec 1910

Letter From Hector Alliot To John Muir, 1910 Dec 1., Hector Alliot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]Los Angeles, Cal. Dec 1. 1910.John Muir, Esq.Martinez California.My dear Mr. Muir:Dr. J. A. Munk has just brought me what he is inclined to believe is the fruit of the Sagillaria, it is a recent find of Mr. Stevenson in the Black Forest of Arizona.I had hoped to show it to you, well knowing your interest in the subject, but I am informed that you have returned home, after your visit here.The fruit (?) - looks like a huge almond three inches long, the texture of which was singularly woody and hard. One end which is bruised, exhibits foliation of …


Letter From Katharine Gorrill To John Muir, [Ca. 1910 Dec]., Katharine Gorrill Dec 1910

Letter From Katharine Gorrill To John Muir, [Ca. 1910 Dec]., Katharine Gorrill

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]and your interest in the little t[illegible] most precious possession. She is a joy from morning until night and Will and I are two very happy people. Truly hope that we can prove to be the parents that we want to be.Now about your gift - I want to get some thing[1]Dear Mr MuirYou certainly are a fairy godfather! To think of you sending our baby another of those bright gold pieces - well - I don't know just what I can say that will tell you how much I appreciate your kindness04906 [3]that she can use and keep always …


Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1910 Nov 30., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1910

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1910 Nov 30., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mark Twain Memorial Carnegie Hall Nov. 30, 8 p.m.Please present this card at the 56[illegible] street entrance for platform seat in section reserved for The AcademyR. U. JohnsonPerm. Sec'y.04905


Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1910 Nov 27., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To [Katharine] Hooker, 1910 Nov 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 27, 1910Dear Mrs HookerI'm sending by express a few prechristmas leaves & flowers. The leaves may be pressed & saved for the Holiday, & the libocedrus you like anyhow. The plumes are flower-laden tho beginning to fade. They have always been favorites of mine.All's well in the lonely Den. Hope to see Keith soon He is better & was in his studio yesterday for the first time - though I failed to see himSaw Herrin. The taxodium trip is waiting calm political weather in Mexico.Fondly hoping all good for you all I am ever faithfully affectionatelyJohn Muir


The Pacific Weekly, November 22, 1910, University Of The Pacific Nov 1910

The Pacific Weekly, November 22, 1910, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


Letter From [John Muir] To [Ricipient Unknown], [Ca. 1910 Nov 19]., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From [John Muir] To [Ricipient Unknown], [Ca. 1910 Nov 19]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[A] Martinez, Cal., November 19, 1910. Dear Madam:- Here is a sketch of the fate of the Donner Party. The Donner party of immigrants bound for California was organized in Illinois. It consisted of about eighty persons nearly equally divided between males and females and including a number of children. About a month was lost by taking a new road around the south end of Salt Lake instead of the usual route around the north end. Therefore owing to this delay the party did not arrive at the foot of the west flank of the Sierra until October 31st, 1846, …


Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1910 Nov 16., Frank H. Scott Nov 1910

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1910 Nov 16., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

04902Frank H. Scott.We should decide as to the edition very soon as our stock is low.


The Pacific Weekly, November 15, 1910, University Of The Pacific Nov 1910

The Pacific Weekly, November 15, 1910, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


Letter From John Muir To Mrs. Newton, 1910 Nov 14, John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To Mrs. Newton, 1910 Nov 14, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal., November 14, 1910 Dear Mrs. Newton:- I thank you very much for the Kodak views of my old home in Dunbar and CatΓÇÖs Row. They are good considering, as you say, the Dunbar weather. I hope that I may yet be allowed to re-visit my cousin and hear the larks sing once more on the meadow near her house. I would be very glad indeed to accept your invitation to stop over at your house on my way across the continent, but there seems to be no end to work. I think I told you that I had …


Letter From John Muir To [J. E.] Calkins, 1910 Nov 14., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To [J. E.] Calkins, 1910 Nov 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., November 14, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. Dear Mr. Calkins:- Many thanks for your kind letter of the twelvth with its good wishes and repeated invitation to your hospitable orange grove home. I am, as you guessed, with Mr. J. D. Hooker and I expect to leave in about a week after finishing another volume; to take up next a book on "Yosemite and Other Yosemites," which ought to have been written years ago. I hope I may be able to get this off next spring or summer. Faithfully yours, John Muir09211


Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [Ca. 1910] Nov 13., Betty Averell Nov 1910

Letter From Betty Averell To John Muir, [Ca. 1910] Nov 13., Betty Averell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Averell][1][letterhead]Dear Mr Muir:—Dont let the above address bewilder you for I am only on Long Island for a few days, & my home is still in Rochester until you come to take me on that long promised trip up the Amazon! Cant you give me the04901

[3]I wish I knew more of all you are writing & thinking way out in Mr. Burroughs geological land!- Perhaps you'll write & tell me - the next best thing to talking & telling me as you did past spring?With loveAlways & faithfullyBetty Averell325 East AveRochester. N.Y.November 13-[2]slightest idea of when we …


Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1910 Nov 12., J. E. Calkins Nov 1910

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1910 Nov 12., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Lordsburg, Calif. Nov. 12. 1910.My dear Mr. Muir:—Your valued letter of Nov. 7 is before me. It was a real treat to us both to hear from you — and to read in plain type, and between the lines, that you are well housed, well fed, and generally well fixed to enjoy life and work. If I am not wrong in my hearings 325 W. Adams is somewhere in the vicinity of John D. Hooker's home — and I know when you are there you're all right. He and his family will keep curious callers away. and let you do …


Letter From W[Illia]M E. Colby To John Muir, 1910 Nov 9., William E. Colby Nov 1910

Letter From W[Illia]M E. Colby To John Muir, 1910 Nov 9., William E. Colby

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." SIERRA CLUB 302 MILLS BUILDING San Francisco, Cal.Board of Directors-1909-1910Mr. John Muir, PresidentProf. A. G. McAdie, Vice-PresidentProf. J. N. Le Conte, TreasurerMr. William E. Colby, Secretary Prof. Wm. F. BadÈ Prof. George DavidsonProf. E. C. Franklinvice Prof. Wm. R. Dudley, resigned Mr. E. T. Parsons Mr. Willoughby RodmanMartinez San Francisco Berkeley San Francisco Berkeley San …


Letter From J[Oshua] B[Ertram] Lippincott Co. To John Muir, 1910 Nov 8., Joshua Bertram Lippincott Nov 1910

Letter From J[Oshua] B[Ertram] Lippincott Co. To John Muir, 1910 Nov 8., Joshua Bertram Lippincott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

London 5, Henrietta Street, Covent GardenJ. B. Lippincott CompanyPublishers Washington SquarePhiladelphia November 8, 1910. Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Calif. Dear Sir:- We were so much interested by your sketch, "Stickeen," that we are moved to ask if you have prepared anything of similar animal-human interest which might first be run in our Magazine and, perhaps, later in book form. Very truly yours, J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY[illegible] 04898


The Pacific Weekly, November 8, 1910, University Of The Pacific Nov 1910

The Pacific Weekly, November 8, 1910, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


Letter From John Muir To [J. E.] Calkins, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To [J. E.] Calkins, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., November 7, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. My dear Mr.Calkins:- I thank you very much for your long hearty hospitable letter and be sure that I should enjoy ever so much making you the visit that you so cordially invite. I have been pegging away at some odds and ends of work for months, going nowhere, but trying to hide so I will not be interrupted. A month or two ago I sent off a book "My first Summer in the Sierra" to Houghton Miflin which will be out early next spring. In the meantime some four …


Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., November 7, 1910. Wm. E. Colby, 302 Mills Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. Dear Mr. Colby:- I'll be on hand at the Directors meeting of the Club November 12th if possible, although I am not at all sure that I shall be able to get away so early. Anyhow you can count on me to be with you in anything that the Club wants to do. I have the manuscript of my book at present almost finished, but it is not certain I can get it cleaned up so as to bring it home before the 12th. How …


Letter From John Muir To [Charles F.] Lummis, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To [Charles F.] Lummis, 1910 Nov 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., November 7, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. Dear Mr. Lummis:- I am very sorry to hear of the sad and pathetic time you are having these days. You have my sincere sympathy. I have all kinds of cares and duties piled on me at present but hope some day or other to have an opportunity to call on you. I have been expecting every minute a telegram calling me north, butanyhow I am, Faithfully yours, [illegible]


Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1910 Nov 7., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1910 Nov 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., November 7, 1910. Darling Helen:- As long as you are going higher up the mountain I don't care anything about the business part of your plans. You are both all right anyhow, although I am very sorry to hear that there should be any lack of cordiality between you and the Van Dykes. Since you are feeling splendid, then so am I. Your taxes are paid on your Martinez property, and all the rents are paid for a year on the pasture. I am still pegging away at the fifth book, which I think I willcall "When …


Letter From C[Harlotte] H. Kellogg To [John Muir], 1910 Nov 5., Charlotte H. Kellogg Nov 1910

Letter From C[Harlotte] H. Kellogg To [John Muir], 1910 Nov 5., Charlotte H. Kellogg

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]the author of the Beloved Vagabond- would be genial and swe[illegible]-spirited - and he had the whimsical, quizzicalness or quizzical whe[illegible]icalness you would expect too.You and he would not agree about the north - He says it is a place for grizzly bears only - there upon I told him that you found great pleasure in sleeping on the ice!Doctor Jordan was here a week or so after his summer [1]Stanford University5th November 1910My very dear friend.She is three months and a half old and so full of sweet wiles and beguilings that you would miss a page or two …


Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1910 Nov 3., John Muir Nov 1910

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1910 Nov 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Nov. 3, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. Dear Mr. Colby:- I am very glad to hear from you that on the wholeWilliam Keith's health is much improved and that if he does not haveany more serious set-backs he will be over in the city soon. I should like very much to be with you on the 5th but Icannot possibly get away. Whatever action the Directors of the Clubtake on the question of national monuments in the Kings River Regionwill I feel sure be satisfactory to me. I propose for membershipin the Club---------M. Frances Wills----501 Buena Vista …


Letter From Richard B. Watrous To William F. Bade, 1910 Nov 2., Richard B. Watrous Nov 1910

Letter From Richard B. Watrous To William F. Bade, 1910 Nov 2., Richard B. Watrous

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

J. HORACE McFARLAND, President, Harrisburg, Pa. CLINTON ROGERS WOODRUFF, First Vice-President, Philadelphia WILLIAM B. HOWLAND, Treasurer, New York RICHARD B. WATROUS, Secretary, Washington, D. C. Vice-Presidents: JAMES R. GARFIELD, Cleveland, Ohio JOHN WESLEY HILL, D. D., New York W. W. HANNAN, Detroit, Mich. GEORGE W. MARSTON, San Diego, Cal. MRS. EDWARD W. BIDDLE, Carlisle, Pa. American Civic AssociationMAIN OFFICE: WASHINGTON, D.C. Executive BoardDR. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS, New YorkHENRY A. BARKER, Providence, R. I. FRANK CHAPIN BRAY, New York MISS MARY MARSHALL BUTLER, Yonkers, N. Y. DR. KENYON L. BUTTERFIELD, Amherst, Mass. MRS. CAROLINE BARTLETT CRANE, Kalamazoo, Mich. Executive Board GEORGE …


Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1910 Nov 2., J. E. Calkins Nov 1910

Letter From J. E. Calkins To John Muir, 1910 Nov 2., J. E. Calkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Lordsburg, Calif. Nov. 2, 1910.My dear Mr. Muir:-It seems long since the day you were at our house here at the grove, and long, too, since we had word of you. Awhile ago we saw that you were at Hooker's, writing a book, but since then you have completely got out of our field of vision — and that is a thing we don't like to have happen.We are working away here, and with good success. The grove is coming on finely, and supporting us and it, and going to do more pretty soon. Our son went East in August …


Letter From Myra C. Marshall To John Muir, 1910 Nov 1., Myra C. Marshall Nov 1910

Letter From Myra C. Marshall To John Muir, 1910 Nov 1., Myra C. Marshall

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

MarshallNovember 1- 19103157 EIGHTEENTH STREETMy dear Mr. Muir,I am sure you can not know the real pleasure I took in hearing of Mr. Marshall's delightful visit with you; and I am so pleased to have the splendid photo of yourself.But we shall never feel quite satisfied until you come on to Washington for a visit with us. I wish you were here right now for we are truly having Indian summer in04892

spite of the fact that November is here.When are you coming?Don't you think a winter in the east would be good for you after these several years in …


The Pacific Weekly, November 1, 1910, University Of The Pacific Nov 1910

The Pacific Weekly, November 1, 1910, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


Letter From M. Amelia Foshay To John Muir, 1910 Oct 31., M. Amelia Foshay Oct 1910

Letter From M. Amelia Foshay To John Muir, 1910 Oct 31., M. Amelia Foshay

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Los Angeles], October 31, 1910.Our dear John Muir:This is Miss Foshay again. Do you know teachers well enough to understand that, when they believe themselves on the right track for the young people who come daily to them, they persist even to the point of importuning?Now I feel our children's desires so intensely that they work themselves out into one great longing in me that you will reconsider your statement on the 'phone a few moments ago and decide that you will spare us an hour during this visit to Los Angeles -- ("the present only is ours," you know) …


Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1910 Oct 25., John Muir Oct 1910

Letter From John Muir To W[Illia]M E. Colby, 1910 Oct 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 25, 1910. 325 West Adams Street. Mr. Wm. E. Colby, 302 Mills Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. Dear Colby:- Why don't you drop me a line telling me how Keith is getting along, as you agreed to do? Of course I am trying to believe no news is good news; still, I would like to hear every day or two, however briefly. I wish you would send a copy of the Bulletin containing my sketch of Galen Clark to Colonel A. H. Sellers, 320 West California Street, Pasadena. I hope to see you in a week or …


The Pacific Weekly, October 25, 1910, University Of The Pacific Oct 1910

The Pacific Weekly, October 25, 1910, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.


Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1910 Oct 24., John Muir Oct 1910

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1910 Oct 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Los Angeles, Cal., Oct. 24, 1910325 West Adams Street. Darling Helen:- Very glad to hear that you are well and happy.As to selling a lot from the Frazer tract, I cannot give you any definite advice without knowing what the man who desires to buy the lot is willing to pay for it, and also its size and location. A lot might he out out from the block which would injure it as a whole. If taken from the upper side back from the road, or if a piece running the whole length from the road up to the top …