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Letter From Clitheroe James To John Muir, [1909 Dec 20]., Clitheroe James Dec 1909

Letter From Clitheroe James To John Muir, [1909 Dec 20]., Clitheroe James

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

52 Browne St. Brookline Mass-A Merry Christmas to you from across the continent from one who enjoyed meeting you in the country that is so grand. I have your new edition of "Our National Parks" and think it is splendid. Best wishes from an Appalachian friend.Clitheroe James.Mr. John Muir-MartinezCalifornia-06812

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Letter From John Muir To Richard A. Ballinger, 1909 Dec 20., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To Richard A. Ballinger, 1909 Dec 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal., Dec 20, 1909.Hon. Richard A. Ballinger,Secretary of the Interior,Washington, D. C.Dear Mr. Ballinger:-We would respectfully suggest that the City of San Francisco be allowed the right to use. Lake Eleanor, Cherry River and Poopenaut Valley as reservoir sites but that it be given the privilege of acquiring the rights and public land necessary for such use within those sites only on condition that it exchange and surrender to the National Government the patented lands which it now owns in Hetch-Hetchy Valley. Could not the Public Lands Committees in Congress be urged to amend oity's bill so as to …

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Letter From Nico B. Meyer To John Muir, 1909 Dec 19., Nico B. Meyer Dec 1909

Letter From Nico B. Meyer To John Muir, 1909 Dec 19., Nico B. Meyer

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Decb. 19 - 1909AnaheimMr. John Muir.Dear Sir. I wish you with all my heart a happy Christmas and a blessed New year - you and all yours. I thank you so much for "Stickeen" which was received in due time.My husband and children have enjoyed it as much as I have.With highest esteem yoursNico B. Meyer.04654

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Postcard From J.M.B. [Joanna Muir Brown] To John Muir, December 18, 1909, Joanna Muir Brown Dec 1909

Postcard From J.M.B. [Joanna Muir Brown] To John Muir, December 18, 1909, Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mr. John Muir, Martinez, California Yours of Nov.[?] the […] received and I am glad you are well and at your work again. Hope you will find pleasant […] quarters. We are all well as usual. Wishing you all the joy of the holiday seasons. I am as ever etc. J.M.B.

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 17., Katharine Hooker Dec 1909

Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 17., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1435 Willard St.Dec 17Dear Mr MuirI cannot get to the Mills Building quite as early as half past three, but will be there by quarter past four.Yours everKatharine Hooker04653

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Letter From Helen Lukens Gaut To John Muir, 1909 Dec 15., Helen Lukens Gaut Dec 1909

Letter From Helen Lukens Gaut To John Muir, 1909 Dec 15., Helen Lukens Gaut

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Helen Lukens Gautmagazine Corrspondent182 East Walnut Street[Pasadena ?] Cal.Dec. 15, 1909.My dear Mr. Muir:-I have forwarded you one of my little booklets which has just been published, and sincerely hope you will like it. I took the liberty of using a quotation from one of your books, one I have always thought particularly beautiful.If after reading the booklet, you can speak well of it, I will be pore than grateful for a brief testimonial.This is the first thing of the kind I have ever done, and if this proves a success, which it bids fair to do, as I have …

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Letter From John Muir To [Henry G.] Bryant, 1909 Dec 15., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To [Henry G.] Bryant, 1909 Dec 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Original in possession of Mr. Henry G. Bryant, Philadelphia, Pa.Martinez, Cal.December 15, 1909.Dear Mr. Bryant:-I am very sorry to say that I will not be present at the Boston meeting of the Club Dec. 30th. I have long wished to meet my fellow mountaineers of the American Alpine Club, but every way thus far has been closed against me.The Sierra Club expects a hot fight in Congress this winter on the Hetch Hetchy valley question, and we rely on the Alpine Club for great able help.With all good wishes for a happy and in every way successful meeting,I am, ever …

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Letter From John Muir To [John] Burroughs, 1909 Dec 14., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To [John] Burroughs, 1909 Dec 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

IllegibleMartinez, CaliforniaDec,14,1909Now, dear Burroughs, don’t waste your good nature. I only did as you requested with the Yosemite geology, but you give me no thanks---only the other stuff.If obstinacy ,unyielding an e Yosemite dome, strangely nixed With love of flowers hills and dales, bees and trees, bird song and brook song, is a Scotch characteristic, then you, my dear John, are as Scottish as I am or over likely [Illegible] be. If instead of stubbornly sailing to Hawaiian Moweries and volcanoes you had allowed, me to take you to the head fountains of the Merced and Tuolumne on the high …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1909 Dec 14., Charles Sprague Sargent Dec 1909

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1909 Dec 14., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Jamaica Palin,Mass.,_____December 14, 1909.Dear Muir:I am glad to see your signature on your open letter concerning the Hetch-hetchy Valley; it is all right. It seems hard to believe that such a thing can be done. Who is at the bottom of this? Is this one of Pinchot's schemes to curry favor with the public?I should like to know how you are getting on and if your daughter is better. Are you working on your book and when will it be finished? we are rather deep here in these days in Chinese trees of which there appear to …

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 12., Katharine Hooker Dec 1909

Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 12., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco, Dec 12Dear Mr MuirMarian is getting better and was at her work yesterday but she coughs like an empty wine cao[illegible].Don't you want to come over next Saturday evening and spend the S[illegible]10004 with us?I see you daily abused by the newspapers, but you don't care a b[illegible] for that. the only thing at all disturbing to you I should think would be any disaffection in the Sierra Club. Is there trouble, or is it newspaper fiction?Yours affectionatelyKatharine Hooker

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Dec 10., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Dec 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home Dec. 10, 1909Darling Helen:How have you fared these cold December days. Frost & rain & mud here swathed in fog. a grand [winter?] for semitropical Cal. Nevertheless we are all well here except a few mump swollen children who feel the attack but little. You can't be too careful as you well know. Send word now & then even now you are independantly married. Have you heard from the Sellers or Charlotte Kellogg My kindest regards to the Funks & Van Dykes especially Buel of course.Ever affectionatelyJohnMuir[in margin: What do you want for Christmas?]

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 9., Katharine Hooker Dec 1909

Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Dec 9., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[4]AffectionatelyyoursKatharine Hooker[1]San Francisco, Dec. 9.My dear Mr MuirI have waited two days, before writing to give you news of Marian, so as to be able to say she was better, which she really is today. But I see I ought to have written at once, since you note just received shows04647 [2]so much friendly solitude.I was troubled about her, she seemed so weak and miserable, and she has had a hard time, but this afternoon she is up and moving about the room, and says I am to tell you she is doing well. I heartily[3]echo your wish with regard …

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Letter From David Starr Jordan To John Muir, 1909 Dec 9., David Starr Jordan Dec 1909

Letter From David Starr Jordan To John Muir, 1909 Dec 9., David Starr Jordan

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

December 9, 1909Mr. John Muir,Martinez, California.Dear Mr. Muir:Permit me to acknowledge your kind letter of November 7th, and also your convincing discussion of the Hetch-Hetchy case. There is but one possible justification for the use of Hetch-Hetchy -- if San Francisco could not obtain the supply anywhere else.Very truly yours,[signed] David Starr Jordan06847

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Letter From Geo[Rge] Otis Smith To John Muir, 1909 Dec 8., George Otis Smith Dec 1909

Letter From Geo[Rge] Otis Smith To John Muir, 1909 Dec 8., George Otis Smith

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GEO. OTIS SMITHU. S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEYWASHINGTON, D. C.December 8, 1909.Mr, John Muir,Martinez, California,My dear Mr, Muir:--May I ask you the favor of your autograph for the volume that I am sending you under separate cover? I wish to present it to my small son, Joseph Coburn Smith, who is that kind of a boy who would appreciate the story better if the book contained the personal touch of the author.Mr. Marshall and I often discuss the Yosemite and its future and you may be assured that we are ready at all times to act in the interests of that wonderful …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Dec 3., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Dec 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]Martinez, Cal., Tuesday Dec 3 1909Darling Helen: Write quick & tell me whether you feel any ill effect from your hurried walk yesterday. You must have enjoyed seeing me in full flight like John Gilpin. The train made up all lost time, & so I arrived this morning in a cold pouring rain at 5.55, & so completely pitch dark that I had to grope for the station & from their felt my way with my feet as I used to do on the mountains When I got home I soon had a grand fire & am not the least …

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Letter From John Muir To [Newton], 1909 [Dec], John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To [Newton], 1909 [Dec], John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Greetings The Old Old Wish thatis Centuries Old “A very Merry Christmas” From John Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1909 Dec 1., John Muir Dec 1909

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1909 Dec 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Dec. 1, 1909—Dear Mr Colby:That Collier's letter is capital- the best you ever done, as far as I have noticed, & must take ill the heart out of anything against us if the editor reads it. Lively complicating events in the water & bond business are now coming fast enough to give us all water on the brain.I'm proposing the letter to Tyler as you suggest.Don't think I can get down before Saturday.Faithfully yoursJohn Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1909 Nov 27., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1909 Nov 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, CaliforniaNov. 27, 1909—Dear Cousin:Your letter came yesterday and I am glad to know that you are both in usual good health. We are pretty well here & in Nebraska last news. I had a delightful trip with the President as I did in 1903 with President Roosevelt. Helen so fully recovered her health that she got married over a month ago to Mr Buel Funk in Daggett. Has built a new house there & is very happy. So I'm now alone in the big house here, writing etc Mrs Vernon Kellogg Ive seen once since their return from Italy …

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Postcard From K.H. [Katherine Hooker] To John Muir, November 27, 1909, Katherine Hooker Nov 1909

Postcard From K.H. [Katherine Hooker] To John Muir, November 27, 1909, Katherine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Contra Costa Co. California. Nov. 27 Mill Valley Dear Mr. Muir-There is where your friend […] Kent lives (see other side) and just round the corner, high up in a green hill, we are all and I spending the four days of […] vacation. It is so green and lush. Over the hill from us are the Muir Woods. If you were here, we would walk over to […]. K.H.

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Letter From John Muir To David Starr Jordan, 1909 Nov 27., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To David Starr Jordan, 1909 Nov 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

PURPOSES: To preserve from destructive invasion our National Parks-Nature's Wonderlands. To enlist the support and co-operation of all organizations and individuals interested in such preservation and to publish and [Illegible] information to accomplish these objects.SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OFNATIONAL PARKSCALIFORNIA BRANCH 302 MILLS BUILDING SAN FRANCISCODirectors of California BranchMR. JOHN MUIR, President, MartinezDR. WM. F. BADE, Vice-President, BerkeleyMR. W. S. GOULD, OaklandMRS. JAS. B. HUME, BerkeleyMR. CHAS. KEELER, BerkeleyPROF. J. N. LECONTE, BerkeleyMRS. KATHARINE MILLER, BerkeleyPROF. W. C. MORGAN, BerkeleyMR. E. T. PARSONS, San FranciscoREV. WM. T. PATCHELL, San JoseMR. WILLOUOGHBY RODMAN, Los AngelesMR. GEO. EDWARDS, Secretary, 302 Mills Building, …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Nov 26., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Nov 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home Nov. 26/09Darling HelenHere is a letter from Mrs Bailey. Very good I think. I met Miss Fish, the old lady, who told me she would have sent you one of her famous marriage cakes had she known the date etc.The weather has been rainy & lots of grapes lost. Several frosts too. I'm pegging away feeling fairly well. Bertha & the twins are wonderfully well & good looking. Hope so are the Mohave twins are the same. Love to youJohn Muir

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Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1909 Nov 26., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To [William] Colby, 1909 Nov 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Friday Nov 26 - [1909?]Dear Mr Colby.I got more cold last time I was in the city & am a little afraid to venture again until fairly well. Can't you come up Sunday. The Santa Fe trains are running regularly again.The new pamphlet seems all right after careful reading.FaithfullyJohn Muir

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Letter From John Muir To John Burroughs, 1909 Nov 26., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To John Burroughs, 1909 Nov 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

IllegibleMartinez Nov. 26/09Dear John Burroughs,I have read your Yosemite Ms. and can make nothing of it, You Raw so little of the Valley I think you had better say little or nothing on its origin. Leave it all out is my advice. It can do no good to yourself or others to try to tell what you have had no chance to know. Compare this haphazard "brazen ignorance With the careful loving life-logg bird studies that made you famous. You must he growing daft. You say," Come study the geology of the Catskills--those Devonian rocks". Could I do it in …

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Letter From J[Ohn] D[Aggett] Hooker To John Muir, 1909 Nov 23., John Daggett Hooker Nov 1909

Letter From J[Ohn] D[Aggett] Hooker To John Muir, 1909 Nov 23., John Daggett Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hooker[letterhead]Los Angeles, Nov 23/09Dear Mr MuirWhy dont you drop in upon me I am alone in the house and shall be for a month or two You can have the run of the house books kitchen garden and an auto to run about to your hearts content - come down cant youFaithfully Jno D Hookerover04538

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Pacific Weekly, November 23, 1909, University Of The Pacific Nov 1909

Pacific Weekly, November 23, 1909, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Nov 18., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir Funk], 1909 Nov 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Home Nov 18 1909Darling Helen I'm well as ever & hard at work writing. After I get some M. S. ready for copy I'll go somewhere but have definite plan. I hardly think your famous desert is the most favorable place. Glad to know you have a good fire place.Pro C. S. Sargent's business address is Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Plain, Mass. - dont know the home address, but think it is Brookline, Mass. This one you had better use.Have finished the new H Hy pamphlet. We are all well & I am ever your devotedJohn Muir

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Letter From Thomas Price To John Muir, 1909 Nov 17., Thomas Price Nov 1909

Letter From Thomas Price To John Muir, 1909 Nov 17., Thomas Price

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

and I lost a mighty good friend, and know it!But I am remaining here, & someday when you come East I want you very much to come to see my "[illegible]". It is the little organization of young men I talked to you about. Here is their "p[illegible]." They have your books - and "Stickeen" has[in margin: [Harriman?]][letterhead]Nov. 17/09Dear Mr. Muir:-I've been wondering about you lately, and have hoped that you are still well, and climbing mountains: but that you have not laid aside that autobiography".Mr. Heaniman's death brought you to my mind. He went very quickly and easily at …

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Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Nov 17., Katharine Hooker Nov 1909

Letter From Katharine Hooker To John Muir, [1909 ?] Nov 17., Katharine Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

S. F. Nov 17Dear Mr MuirMarian is not feeling very well and being tired thinks she had better spend this coming Sunday in bed. But I will go over and are you, leaving here at 8.20 and04635 meeting you at Martinez, as you suggest, if it is not stormy. We are very glad to hear you have shaken off that wicked cold.Yours everKatharine Hooker

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Letter From Charlrs [A.] Keeler To John Muir, 1909 Nov 16., Charlrs A. Keeler Nov 1909

Letter From Charlrs [A.] Keeler To John Muir, 1909 Nov 16., Charlrs A. Keeler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

2727 Dwight Way,Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 16, 1909.My dear Mr. Muir:We all greatly enjoyed our visit with you, and only regretted that the time was so brief. In taliing over your suggestion about a secretary to help you at home, we have thought of a young man that you might try. He is Herriot Holmes, a son of the late Henry Holmes, the well-known violinist and composer. He is about twenty three years old, and with his twin brother who plays the 'cello in a San Francisco cafe, is the only support of his mother.He was brought up in England and …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1909 Nov 16., John Muir Nov 1909

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1909 Nov 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

106 Martinez, Nov. 16, 1909Dear Johnson:Here are clippins which show the wild political storm here & phases of the H Hetchy scheme. Please return them when done with them. We have our pamphlet ready for the fight in congress & will soon send you a lot. Am glad the President & Secretary Ballinger understand the water scheme Had a fine telling time with them. Have been laid up with a severe grippe cold which has prevented writing you earlier. Hope you are well. The H. Hetchy sky now seems brighter.Ever faithfully yoursJohn Muir

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