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Letter From Annie Muir Webster To John Muir, 1906 Nov 29., Annie Muir Webster Nov 1906

Letter From Annie Muir Webster To John Muir, 1906 Nov 29., Annie Muir Webster

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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"The Maples"

Philadelphia Nov-29-1906

Mr John Muir-

My dear Sir-

In writing to John Muir I almost feel that I am writing ton one of my own kin - My maternal grandmother was a Muir - Elizabeth Muir - The very striking resemblance of your pictures I have in "The Outlook" of June 6th 1903 and June 3rd 1905 to my mothers brother emboldened me to write - His name was Daniel Muir Chisholm, born in Invernessshire, Scotland- My middle name is Muir My love for the quiet of the country which is and has been so …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1906 Nov 28 ., John Muir Nov 1906

Letter From John Muir To [Charles A.] Keeler, 1906 Nov 28 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 28/06

My dear Mr Keeler

I'm very glad to hear from you though sorry Mrs Keller's health is still so frail. We all fondly hope rest in the open air will soon renew her strength
How busy you have been with your pen these days, while I have not written a word - days weeks & months consumed in petty cares tinkering the old house - healing earthquake wounds etc. But at last roofs have been made whole, new fires lighted & we want you to come & see us, come as soon as you can, give my …

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Letter From Watkins W. Morris To John Muir, [1906 Nov 27]., Watkins W. Morris Nov 1906

Letter From Watkins W. Morris To John Muir, [1906 Nov 27]., Watkins W. Morris

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Season's greetings from the Antipodes, to self & family. Have had no reply to my letter. I hope all are well

Watkins W. Morris

Lismore

New S. Wales.

Dr. John Muir

Martinez,

near San Francisco

Cal.

U. S. America

06833

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Letter From John Muir To Francis George 1906 Nov 16, John Muir Nov 1906

Letter From John Muir To Francis George 1906 Nov 16, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Nov. 16/06

Mr. Francis George

My dear sir I think $400 is too little for Lot 4 Block 36 with additional 40 ft. It seems quite as good in every way as lot 3, which you say sold for $750.

The deed for lot 3 Blk 17 was made long ago. I told Mr. [ ] who had it in his office to send it to you or give it to Mr. Coleman. I’ll attend to it myself. Mr. Petersen promised me a week or two ago he would begin paying regularly $25 a month from December. Can’t say …

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The Liberty Boys And Brave Jane M'Crea, Or, After The Spy Of Hubbardton, Harry Moore Nov 1906

The Liberty Boys And Brave Jane M'Crea, Or, After The Spy Of Hubbardton, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To [George R. ?] King, [19]06 Nov 15., John Muir Nov 1906

Letter From John Muir To [George R. ?] King, [19]06 Nov 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal., Nov 15/06

Dear Mr King:

The fine lot of photographs came safely I hope to write something for the Century on these stone woods but when can't say as I am still at work on house repairs.
As to work on the reservation the [poling on?] all Departments is to keep all work for their own employees
Wishing you good luck & hoping to see you next summer I am

yours faithfully

John Muir

Will let you know how many prints are used by the magazine

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To Marsden Manson, 1906 Nov 15., Gifford Pinchot Nov 1906

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To Marsden Manson, 1906 Nov 15., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

COPY,

November 15, 1906.

Mr. Harsden Manson,
2010 Gough Street,
San Francisco, Cal.

My dear Mr. Manson:-

I cannot, of course, attempt to forecast the action of the new Secretary of the Interior on the San Francisco Watershed question, but my advice to you is to assume that his attitude will be favorable, and to make the necessary preparations to set the case before him. I had supposed from an item in the paper that the city had definitely given up the Lake Eleanor plan and had purchased one of the other water systems. If the possibility of a supply …

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Letter From [John Muir] To W. Inglis Clark, 1907 Dec 10., John Muir Nov 1906

Letter From [John Muir] To W. Inglis Clark, 1907 Dec 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez California [Dec 10] 1907

W. Ingles Clark, Esq

Hon. Secretary of the

Scottish Mtneering Club

29 Lander Road

Edinburgh.

Dear Sir,

With great pleasure & pride I accept the honorary membership in your club announced in your letter of Nov. 1st after long far lonely wanderings to be associated in this way with the mtns & mtneers of my native land seems like getting home & I am with thanks & best wishes to the Scottish Mtneering club

faithfully yours

J M

03991

Martinez, California Dec. 10

[1907]

W. Inglis Clark, Esq.

Hon. Secretary of the Scottish Mountaineering Club, …

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Letter From Paul Griswold Huston To John Muir, 1906 Nov 9., Paul Huston Nov 1906

Letter From Paul Griswold Huston To John Muir, 1906 Nov 9., Paul Huston

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

or the Yellowstone, but it does try to tell of what wildness there is still left in little books occasionally in Ohio. Your own studies are mentioned in connection with my paper upon "The Woods".
If at your leisure you care to let the author of "Around an Old Homestead" know what you think of his book, I can say with considerable authority that he will be greatly delighted.
In the meantime, he will introduce himself, will tell you how thoroughly he has enjoyed your Western books, and will hope to see farther inspirations from your pen in the "Century" …

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Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1906 Nov 3., Katharine Merrill Graydon Nov 1906

Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1906 Nov 3., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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desire of my heart while our mother is still with us. She was very ill in the spring, and tho better now, is very much broken. It seemed strange that she should collapse with physically and mentally so suddenly after seventy of such unusual health; but so it is. Aunt Julia's slight hold on life continence still slighter. The boys are well, are working very hard are as devoted as they should be to their pail mother.
Aunt Mina is the same Aunt Mina, only more so - poor lonely soul. She sees so life for herself. My blessed …

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Letter From M. Seeley Husted To John Muir, 1906 Nov 1., M. Seeley Husted Nov 1906

Letter From M. Seeley Husted To John Muir, 1906 Nov 1., M. Seeley Husted

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hankow China.

Nov. 1st 1906

My dear Prof.

I received your very welcome letter a week or so ago and sincerely hope that long ere this you have received the tea. I double registered it by Parcel post so that you must certainly receive it else it will come back to me as I am still keeping the register receipt until I am certain you have the tea. As to the fossils you speak of I will do my level best to secure some for you and think I may be fortunate as there is a regular boat trade between …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 31., Robert Underwood Johnson Oct 1906

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 31., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

October 31, 1906.

R.W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.U. JOHNSON
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
C.C. BUEL.
ASSISTANT EDITOR
My dear Muir:

Mr. George R. King, 41 North Beacon Street, Brighton, Boston, was in this morning with photographs of petrified forests and, on the understanding that you are to write us an article on that subject, as we hope you still mean to do, we have asked him to send you certain photographs which we have selected from his set as being, on the whole, the best and most comprehensive presentation of the subject pictorially. Of course we cannot use a large number of pictures. …

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Letter From R. H. Willcomb To John Muir, 1906 Oct 29., R. H. Willcomb Oct 1906

Letter From R. H. Willcomb To John Muir, 1906 Oct 29., R. H. Willcomb

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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ice and snow this winter.
I hope your work on the house is progressing nicely. It will seem all the more comfortable after things are finally straightened out. Please remember me to Miss Helen and Mrs. Hanna and tom. I hope that Miss Helen is strong enough to stand the winter at Martinez. I thank you again for the book and I would greatly appreciate a letter from you

Your Sincere friend

R. H. Willcomb.

[1]

Boston, Mass.

Oct. 29, 1906

Dear Mr. Muir:-

I received your book, "The Mountains of California", and I thank you very much. I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [19]06 Oct 19., John Muir Oct 1906

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [19]06 Oct 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct 19/06

Dear Mr. Johnson.

I dont know anything at all about the Trinity mine or any other Nor do I know any mine owners All this $ geology is out of my line.
The part you've taken in affairs for public good may well be pleasant to look upon I think much as you do about the remaining forests of the Alleghinies & Western Mountains though mostly scraps & patches.
I have not written a word for the press for mare than a year. Just now the old house is being repaired--After the workmen leave I may find …

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Letter From Alden Sampson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 16., Alden Sampson Oct 1906

Letter From Alden Sampson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 16., Alden Sampson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

2223 Atherton St.,
Berkeley, Cal.,
16 Oct., 1906.

Dear Mr. Muir,--

I have the pleasantest recollections of my visit at Martinez, in particular of our drive to Mr. Swett's and his courtesy. The bunches of Flaming Tokay grapes were much admired. One of these I took to my table at the Berkeley Inn, where it received tributes of admiration from Mrs. Lathrop and her son, [illegible] while the other graced our spread at a Sunday morning's breakfast on the rocks beyond North Berkeley, up under the eucalyptus ridge, at a reunion of a little circle known as the "Contented Club," …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 8., Robert Underwood Johnson Oct 1906

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1906 Oct 8., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York,
October 8, 1906.

My dear Muir:

I wonder if you know, or can find out, anything about the Trinity mine (Copper) in Shasta County. A friend of mine who, on strong recommendation of it has invested in it wishes "to know, you know." It is reported that they have staked out $4,000,000 worth of ore, and as copper is higher now than for forty years, this looks favorable. Do you know anybody up there who can tell you the condition and prospects, and something about the management?
You may remember an editorial I wrote in the Century eighteen …

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Letter From Roland, Linda & G[Eorge] Hansen To [John Muir], 1906 Autumn., Linda Hansen, George Hansen, Roland Hansen Oct 1906

Letter From Roland, Linda & G[Eorge] Hansen To [John Muir], 1906 Autumn., Linda Hansen, George Hansen, Roland Hansen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

JOY, AFFECTION and CONTENTMENT--symbolizing CHILDHOOD, YOUTH and AGE--should grow and follow one the other. And so do these bulbs. Plant as soon as received. And if a child of Berkeley should have strayed to pastures covered with white garments in winter time, let him keep his bulbs planted in window boxes, with a bright look outside and in.

[1]

In this space the Children of Berkeley can note the day of planting and of flowering of the different kinds. And on the day of harvesting the bulbs they will do well to read the Thanksgiving sermon recorded in Deuteronomy XXVI. …

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1906 Sep 29., John Muir Sep 1906

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1906 Sep 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Sep. 29 /06

Dear Dr. Merriam,

We were very glad to get tidings of you. Come up any time, though only Helen and I are here, Wanda and her Mr. Hanna being gone for a month. The house is being repaired, but there are still good camping spots in it and grapes etc. for food.
We were very sorry to learn that your Uncle James was not in his usual health. No wonder, considering the care he has been carrying these latter years.
Hoping to see you very soon, I am

Faithfully yours,
JOHN MUIR

03765

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Letter From W[Illiam] R[Ussell] Dudley To John Muir, 1906 Sep 24., William Russell Dudley Sep 1906

Letter From W[Illiam] R[Ussell] Dudley To John Muir, 1906 Sep 24., William Russell Dudley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Mr. John Muir.

Martinez Calif.

My Dear Mr Muir

I am sending in to-day, my resignation from the Directors of the Sierra Club. I am to be absent from our University for a year, on leave. - taking my sabbatical year. I have been somewhat run down for the past two years, and intend to take some rest and travel.
I am notifying Mr. Colby as Secretary, but I write to you to express to you personally the great satisfaction it has been to me to be associated with you in a work and in objects I was deeply …

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Letter From W. H. Trout To [John Muir], 1906 Sep 24., W. H. Trout Sep 1906

Letter From W. H. Trout To [John Muir], 1906 Sep 24., W. H. Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

794 Haight St San fracisco Cal

Sep 24th 1906

Dear Friend John

We arrived here yesterday forenoon and are now with my cousin Mrs Anna Cotton Everything has gone very well with us excepting my condition I got along with the heat of Winnipeg and the cold of the mountains but as soon as I got into the balmy moist air of the Pacific I began to take cold it was bad Had to lie a bed over half a day on account of it In two or three days I improved and then took on the most annoying and …

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Letter From Frank H. Sellers To John Muir, 1906 Sep 14., Frank H. Sellers Sep 1906

Letter From Frank H. Sellers To John Muir, 1906 Sep 14., Frank H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

10 Astor St., Chicago.
Sept. 14, 1906.

My Dear Mr. Muir:

I have been asked a pleasant courtesy:- to write a letter of introduction to you for my friend Bert. Wentworth,- because it stirs me up to send you a note, and it takes quite a jolt to make me write to anyone. I do not know why I have such a constitutional reluctance to writing, but I have, all the same, and I have now come to be so fully aware of it, that I no longer make apologies.
Bert. Wentworth is a fine young fellow whom I have …

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The Liberty Boys' Revenge; Or, Punishing The Tories, Harry Moore Sep 1906

The Liberty Boys' Revenge; Or, Punishing The Tories, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

No abstract provided.

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Letter From John Muir To [Mary J.] Arnold, 1906 Sep 13., John Muir Sep 1906

Letter From John Muir To [Mary J.] Arnold, 1906 Sep 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Sep. 13, 1906.

Dear Mrs Arnold.

I thank you for your kind letter & the beautiful flowers which came safely to hand a few days ago, telling kind appreciation of my little books
I have not written a word for the press lately so unquiet & care-filled has been the last years but have gained wonderful views of the world's oldest trees in the Petrified Forests of Arizona.
Again thanking you I am with best wishes faithfully yours

John Muir

03761


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Letter From W. H. Trout To John Muir, 1906 Sep 13., W. H. Trout Sep 1906

Letter From W. H. Trout To John Muir, 1906 Sep 13., W. H. Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Souvenir Postal Card

FROM VANCOUVER, B.C.

The picture shows but little excepting volcanoes all the great t[illegible]ties of mountain scenery are here it seems like scri[illegible]ge to attempt description or rep[illegible]tation A great wall of rock to the left cloud capped peaks to the right A great glacier in front and an unsurpassed lake at your [illegible] We are making slow progress Must blame my daughter some. She is an enthusastic mountaineer We stayed rather long near Winnipeg among old former friends Hope to be in Seattle the 18th and will be there nearly a week and then 2 days …

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Letter From John Muir To Mr Newton, 1906 Sep 12, John Muir Sep 1906

Letter From John Muir To Mr Newton, 1906 Sep 12, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez Cal. Sep.12/06 Dear Mr Newton: IΓÇÖm very glad to hear from you and get a good photograph of you. Your letter brings back the auld lang syne Prairie du Chien days. Only Mrs. Wilson who was Emily Pelton have I ever met in California of all my Prairie du Chien friends. I have both your fatherΓÇÖs and motherΓÇÖs photographs in an old album. I would like very much to see you. Be sure to come straight to my house when you arrive in California and IΓÇÖll certainly seek you should I ever find myself in Omaha. My brother Daniel …

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Letter From Endora Garoutte To [John Muir], 1906 Sep 12., Endora Garoutte Sep 1906

Letter From Endora Garoutte To [John Muir], 1906 Sep 12., Endora Garoutte

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

CAROLINA STATE LIBRARY
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA

TRUSTEES:
ALLEN B. LEMMON, PRESIDENT, SANTA ROSA
CHARLES S. GREENE,---OAKLAND
BRADNER W. LEE,---LOS ANGELES
JOSEPH STEFFENS,---SACRAMENTO
W. C. VAN FLEET,---SAN FRANCISCO

J. L. GILLIS, LIBRARIAN
WM. R. WATSON, ASSISTANT.CALIFORNIA HISTORICAL DEPARTMENT,
EUDORA GAROUTTE, CHIEF.

Sept 12 1906

Dear Sir :

We are endeavoring to obtain authors' names in full for the new card catalog of the Library, as well as signed biographical sketches to file for reference.
We will consider it a favor if you will fill out the enclosed card and return it to the California Historical Department.
Under "Miscellaneous notes" may be given …

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Letter From John Muir To J[Ohn] J. Byrne, 1906 Sep 12., John Muir Sep 1906

Letter From John Muir To J[Ohn] J. Byrne, 1906 Sep 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Sept. 12, 1906.

Mr. Jno. J. Byrne,
Los Angeles, Cal.

Dear sir:

Here is a sketch map of the Petrified Forests, old and newabout Adamana, showing approximately their distribution, extent, etc., as I have seenthem in the course of my studies during the last year.
The 1st, 2nd, 3rd and blue forests on account of their wealth of color and wonderful beauty will probably always be most attractive to tourists, while students of the world's first trees will find greater interest in the Sigillaria groves and the Grand black for ets with their innumerable huge, comparatively well preserved trunks …

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Letter From W. H. Trout To [John Muir], 1906 Aug 17., W. H. Trout Aug 1906

Letter From W. H. Trout To [John Muir], 1906 Aug 17., W. H. Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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648 Washington St Milwaukee Wis Aug 17-06

Dear Friend John

If nothing hinders I and daughter will start on our pacific trip two weeks from to night the 31st I find it will be most pleasant and advantageous to go by the north and return by the south we will then have nearly uniform weather all the time We will be with Maggie and her family a few days in Winnipeg We will stay a day or two in the Rockies making two or three stops before we get to Vancouver There will perhaps be ten days or more …

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Letter From W. H. Simpson To John Muir, 1906 Aug 14., W. H. Simpson Aug 1906

Letter From W. H. Simpson To John Muir, 1906 Aug 14., W. H. Simpson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway System.

Railway Exchange, 9 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.

OFFICE OF PASSENGER TRAFFIC MANAGER.

W.J. BLACK,
Passenger Traffic Manger.

W.H. SIMPSON,
Advertising Agent

Chicago, August 14, 1906.

PETRIFIED FOREST NATIONAL PARK BILL

Mr. John Muir,
Grand View Hotel, Grandview, Arizona.

Dear Mr. Muir:

Further answering your letter July 31st, written from Adamana:
Am advised that the Petrified Forest National Park bill passed the House June 28th, but as Congress adjourned two days afterwards, no action was taken thereon in the Senate.
I have no doubt that the matter will be taken up again and strong …

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Letter From W[Illia]M Newton To John Muir, 1906 Aug 12., William Newton Aug 1906

Letter From W[Illia]M Newton To John Muir, 1906 Aug 12., William Newton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

OMAHA, NEB., August 12. 1906.

My dear Mr. Muir:

Your letter of July 13.th received. I was very much pleased to learn that you are the John Muir that I faintly remember as a little boy and whom I remember of often hearing my mother speak of. My dear mother died in prairie du Chien in 1871 and my father in 1881. In 1889 my two brothers, both born after you left "the prairie", and myself moved to Sioux City and bought an interest in the above firm and in 1898 after my marriage to a Miss Brooks of …

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