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Letter From David S. Jordon To John Muir, 1903 Feb 10., David S. Jordon Feb 1903

Letter From David S. Jordon To John Muir, 1903 Feb 10., David S. Jordon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY

OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT

Stanford University, Cal., Feb. 10, 1903.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

My friend, Bliss Perry, of the Atlantic Monthly, urges me to tell you in ray way that no California number of the Atlantic, and I may say, of anything else, is complete or satisfactory without a word from you. Perhaps I can say this much, which you already know very well, that the Atlantic Monthly is the most worthy of all our magazines, and that Mr. Bliss Perry is one of the most worthy of all its editors, and …

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Letter From Francis George To John Muir, February 9, 1903, Francis George Feb 1903

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, February 9, 1903, Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Feb 9th 1903 Mr. John Muir Martinez Calif. Dear Sir, Enclose please find Ck No 44 for $351.25 to be credited on lot 1 B33 in favor of Mrs. Michael E.C. Saucey [?] Please have deed made out for same and recorded. The enclose plan will show how I thought that the Hall could be added to. Please let me know how you would want it made & then I will get bids to do the work. Respectfully yours Francis George Crockett P.O. Calif

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Letter From Edward Hughes To John Muir, 1903 Feb 9., Edward Hughes Feb 1903

Letter From Edward Hughes To John Muir, 1903 Feb 9., Edward Hughes

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Stockton, Feby. 9 - 1903

221 E. Acacia St.

Mr. John Muir

Martinez, Calif.

Dear Sir and Friend:

I send you by separate package another copy of the picture I made of you. It is the very best I have been able to get from the negative, which has since been "tinkered" and spoiled.
I hope I may have your permission to try again some time.
My land application will be approved this month so the Surveyor General writes me and I will soon own a part of the Sierras myself. I hope to build a cabin on it this …

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Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To John Muir, 1903 Feb 8., Mary L. Swett Feb 1903

Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To John Muir, 1903 Feb 8., Mary L. Swett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Hill Girt, Feb. 8, 1903.

My Dear Mr. Muir,

One day last week I was calling upon your sister, Mrs. Reid, and we were talking about Annie Muir, and she was saying you had a copy of a good obituary notice, clipped from one of your home papers. Now I would like very much to see that, and if you will mail it to me, I will take the greatest care of it and will

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return it promptly-
You know how much we all thought of Annie. For several years after he return to Portage we corresponded occasionally- …

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Letter From Bliss Perry To John Muir, 1903 Feb 4., Bliss Perry Feb 1903

Letter From Bliss Perry To John Muir, 1903 Feb 4., Bliss Perry

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 4, 1903.

Dear Mr. Muir:

You scare me by what you say in your letter of January 25th. Really, it would he absurd to publish a California Number of the Atlantic without a contribution from you in it. Of course I hare no light to urge you in the matter and I dare- say you are getting up as early in the morning and going to bed as late at night as is at all wise, but it does seem to us as If we must have that article. Pray give us every possible opportunity for it, and remember …

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Letter From Mrs. James E. White To John Muir, 1903 Feb 2., Mrs. James E. White Feb 1903

Letter From Mrs. James E. White To John Muir, 1903 Feb 2., Mrs. James E. White

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Springfield, Vt.

Feb. 2" 1903
Mr John Muir,

Dear Sir.

Yours of Jan, 20 was duly received, and I sincerely thank you for your kindly reply to my request to the Smithsonian Institution
It was a happy chance that they referred it to you for I would not dare make the request of you, myself, had I known where to reach you - and I am more then delighted to own an autograph letter

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of John Muir aside from receiving the desired information - and allow me to add that there is for me a charm in your description …

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Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1903 Feb 1., Joanna Muir Brown Feb 1903

Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1903 Feb 1., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I cannot remember but she put her whole trust in Christ, and scripture flowed from her lips all the time". - - - -
I fear poor Annie felt very lonely so far from all her kindred and it gives me a terrible heartache that some of us could not have been with her through all her sickness to soothe and comfort and minister to her. and I am sure we are all inexpressibly thankful that Dan, the one who could do the most, was not too late
I am glad of

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Port Norfolk Va

Feb 1st 1903 …

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Letter From Enos A. Mills To John Muir, 1903 Jan 29., Enos A. Mills Jan 1903

Letter From Enos A. Mills To John Muir, 1903 Jan 29., Enos A. Mills

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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ESTES PARK, COLO. Jan. 29 1903

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, California,

Dear Sir:- I thank you for the photograph. it will be a treasure to me through the years.
Another Forest Reserve seems probable for this state. The petition asking for it requests that it be from 12 to 24 miles wide and about 120 miles long on the summit of chiefly the Continental Divide in Northern Colorado.
My Review of "Our National Parks" is to be in April Outdoor Life: but possibly in March number. Will send you a copy that contains my review.
Thanking you for encouraging …

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Letter From W. B. Gilbert To John Muir, 1903 Jan 28., W. B. Gilbert Jan 1903

Letter From W. B. Gilbert To John Muir, 1903 Jan 28., W. B. Gilbert

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Francisco, Cal. Jan. 28th. ’03.

Prof, John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

Your kind Rate of recent date is rec'd. and I have been endeavoring to go out and see you. but have been so very busy that it seems almost impossible to get away. I will, therefore, endeavor to make plain to you our desires in connection with the article "Glaciers11, and trust you can decide the matter without my conferring with you personally.
Mr. Frederick Converse Beach, the Editor-in-Chief of the Scientific American is also Editor-in-Chief of the new American encyclopedia, which we are arranging to issue. …

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Letter From Anna Head To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel], 1903 Jan 28, Anna Head Jan 1903

Letter From Anna Head To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel], 1903 Jan 28, Anna Head

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 28th 1903, Aunt H. To Mrs. Muir My Dear Mrs Muir, I found the book you and Wanda so kindly sent me, today, on buy return from a weeks’ drive through the mountains & in the Ojai valley. It was most thoughtful of you, it is by far the best book I have seen on the [ ]. I have an excellent opportunity here to study [ ] & shall refer to the book constantly. I am growing very much stronger & thoroughly [ ] giving me [ ] twice. I hear with much pleasure of all that Wanda …

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Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 27., Anna Galloway Eastman Jan 1903

Letter From Anna Galloway Eastman To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 27., Anna Galloway Eastman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Scappoose, Oregon, Jan. 27, 1903.

Dear uncle John:

I am in receipt of a letter from Celia in which she tells me she has received a letter from you inclosing twenty dollars to me with your love.
Dear uncle John I thank you - especially for the love.
Mother and I are better than we were - doing the best we can. As for me it seems as if all the light and beauty in life are gone - but may be sometime the sun will shine again.

Yours affectionately,

Anna Galloway Eastman.

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1903 Jan 26., John Muir Jan 1903

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1903 Jan 26., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California

January 26, 1903

Dear Cousin: Our sister Anne, one of the twins, died at her home in Portage on the 15th of this month, of Apoplexy after a weeks illness. Only Daniel was, of all the family, able to be with her at the last. We were all surprised & shocked, for her health for the last year or two seemed to be growing better, & she had written long holiday letters as usual to us all in lively spirits. For more than a month she had been pretty closely confined to the house, partly from illness …

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Letter From Sarah M. Galloway To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 26., Sarah M. Galloway Jan 1903

Letter From Sarah M. Galloway To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 26., Sarah M. Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Scappoose,Oregon,
Jan.26, 1903.

Dear Brother John:

Here is the letter I received from Dan, and though there are few particulars I thought you might like to see it. Mary's letter came yesterday which I will also enclose. You will see she was only in time for the funeral, but it is such a comfort that they could both be there. I suppose Mary would not know how seriously ill Annie was until she received the telegram announcing her death, when she must have started at once.
I will also enclose this letter from Mrs. Laura Owen, Abbott. She is a …

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Letter From John Muir To [Bliss] Perry, 1903 Jan 25., John Muir Jan 1903

Letter From John Muir To [Bliss] Perry, 1903 Jan 25., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California. (13)

Jan. 25, 1903.

Dear Mr. Perry:

I'm afraid I'll not be able to prepare an article for the July Atlantic. I want to start on a long trip with Sargent next May, and it will probably be as much or more than I can do to get the work already undertaken off my hands by that time; for alas my pen is slow,-slow as a glacier. If like Scott or Lockhart or Kit North I could keep MS sheets flying like ripe leaves in a gale, be assured dear Editor the little article you want would be …

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Letter From Morgan Shepard To John Muir, 1903 Jan 24., Morgan Shepard Jan 1903

Letter From Morgan Shepard To John Muir, 1903 Jan 24., Morgan Shepard

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

SAN FRANCISCO, January 24,1903.

John Muir, ESq.,

Martinez, California.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

In excuse for taking your time, it might be well for me to tell who I am in the initial part of my letter. Though I have long wanted to know you personally, I am not the kind of person that inflects his letters or society without some reason. There fore, in extenuation of my requesting some reply from you, I would say that I am in receipt of a letter from Miss Maria Whitney of Cambridge Mass., the own sister of Josiah Whitney, (this lady is an …

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Letter From M[Argaret] Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 23., Margaret Hay Lunam Jan 1903

Letter From M[Argaret] Hay Lunam To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 23., Margaret Hay Lunam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I like to see all my friends, I am getting an old woman now, I have [illegible] my 80th year. I cannot expect many more years. [James May?] & family are all well, also Mrs Jeffrey our cousins:- Susan Gilroy. & Jane M[illegible] both well and busy at their school occupations Maggie joins me in much love to all our friends [illegible] [illegible].

Believe me

ever your affectionate cousin

M. Hay Lunam

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Jan. 23d 1903

WESTFIELD

DUNBAR

[illegible]

My dear Cousin John

We were very pleased to have you New Year's letter with all your good wishes for …

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Letter From Geo[Rge] D. Smith To John Muir, 1903 Jan 23., George D. Smith Jan 1903

Letter From Geo[Rge] D. Smith To John Muir, 1903 Jan 23., George D. Smith

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Visalia, Cal. Jan. 23d 1903

Mr John Muir

Martinez Cal.

My Dear Sir:- Pardon my delay in, reply to your letter of Nov 30, in which you acknowledge receipt of photos sent you and asking for some more copies of Double sequoia and the small one of yourself.
Owing to a great amount of official work and also for other reasons I have had very little time to devote to printing pictures, which is the principal cause of my being slow.
I send you by this mail the additional pictures you asked for and for which there is no …

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Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 22., Joanna Muir Brown Jan 1903

Letter From [Joanna Muir Brown] To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 22., Joanna Muir Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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We read your article on the Grand Canon [diacritic] of the Colorado in the Century, It seemed almost too wonderful and vast for me to comprehend, I will have to study it awhile to understand it. I scarcely see how you found words to describe anything so unusual. I would like to see some of the views for myself.
I hope you will send me anything from your pen which I have not seen, for we all enjoy them so much

Love to you and yours

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Port Norfolk Va

Jan. 22, 1903

Dear brother John:

I was glad …

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Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1903 Jan 22., Frank H. Scott Jan 1903

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1903 Jan 22., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

THE CENTURY CO.
UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK

January 22, 1903.

John Muir, Esq,

Martinez, California.

My dear Mr. Muir:

It was with a feeling of disappointment that I read your letter of the 13th. We must of course await the completion of the manuscript and we shall hope that you may yet see your way to have it ready in time for autumn publication. In the meantime it has occurred to us that possibly the material for some other volume may have accumulated on your hands. If so, I sincerely hope you will let us have an opportunity to consider …

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Letter From Francis George To John Muir, January 20, 1903, Francis George Jan 1903

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, January 20, 1903, Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Jan 20th 03 Mr. John Muir Martinez Calif. Dear Sir Enclose please find Ck No 40 for $205.00 to be credited as follows. To A. Zales for rent of Ranch on North side of County road and East of road that leads to Vallejo Junction. $105.00 the balance $25.00 he paid to you. To Matoza [?] for rent of ranch on North side of County road & west of road that leads to Vallejo Junction $100.00 the balance $70.00 is to be paid by May 1st 03. Which they claim that you agreed to. Respectfully yours Francis George

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Letter From Marian Hooker To John Muir, 1903 Jan 20., Marian Hooker Jan 1903

Letter From Marian Hooker To John Muir, 1903 Jan 20., Marian Hooker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Ellie will have to represent the gray Rock quartette with only the guitar to help her out, since Helen too has deserted and become engaged.
I am enclosing a few pictures of the Monterey cypresses

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325 [W.?] Adams St.
Los Angeles - Cal -
Jan 20 - 1903.

My dear Mr. Muir-

It was very pleasant to have your New years' greetings, and both Ellie and I have been wanting to write you since.
Just now I am thinking with

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[longing?] of the mountings, regretting that I shall not be among them this year living over …

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Letter From Harry Fielding Reid To John Muir, 1903 Jan 16., Harry Fielding Reid Jan 1903

Letter From Harry Fielding Reid To John Muir, 1903 Jan 16., Harry Fielding Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY,
JOHNS HOPINKS UNIVERSITY,
BALTIMORE, MD.

January 16th., 1903.

Mr. John Muir.

Martinez, Cal.

My dear Mr.: Muir:-

I am again collecting information for my annual report on Variations of Glaciers. Professor Davidson has sent me a report from the Captain of the excursion steamer to the effect that the end of the Muir Glacier is now about a mile and a half behind its position before the earthquake. Perhaps, you have heard something more about it or about the other glaciers in that region or other parts of Alaska.
I have never been able to get any definite …

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The Liberty Boys' "Wild Irishman," Or, A Lively Lad From Dublin, Harry Moore Jan 1903

The Liberty Boys' "Wild Irishman," Or, A Lively Lad From Dublin, Harry Moore

Liberty Boys of "76"

No abstract provided.

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Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 15., Sarah Muir Galloway Jan 1903

Letter From [Sarah Muir Galloway] To [John Muir], 1903 Jan 15., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Scappoose, Oregon.

Jan. 15 - 1903

Dear brother John

Seeing I sent you the news of the Telegram, I thought I had better enclose this letter which I think explains it. Yesterday, I received a long letter from Annie L. dated Jan. 6. with this one I send you enclosed, which you see is dated Jan. 9. she must have been taken suddenly ill on the 8th. and her letter lying addressed, and ready to send the telegram which we would receive before the letter came.
Anna Eastman tells me she has had such an attack before when she has …

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Letter From W[Illiam] B[Elmont] Parker To John Muir, 1903 Jan 15., William Belmont Parker Jan 1903

Letter From W[Illiam] B[Elmont] Parker To John Muir, 1903 Jan 15., William Belmont Parker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN & COMPANY EDITOR'S OFFICE 4 PARK ST. BOSTON

January 15, 1903.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I hope in the interval since I last heard from you that you have been making progress that satisfies you upon the Grand Canon book.---It would be a great pleasure to us all here to learn that it will soon be ready for publication.

Yours sincerely,

[illigible]

Mr. John Muir.

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Letter From Florence M. Bailey To John Muir, 1903 Jan 14., Florence M. Bailey Jan 1903

Letter From Florence M. Bailey To John Muir, 1903 Jan 14., Florence M. Bailey

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

1834 [Kalorama?] Av. Washington

Jan. 14, 1903.

My dear Mr. Muir:

Your letter announcing the nuts and raisins was a surprise. You are altogether too good to us. The beautiful great brushes of raisins are a feast to the eye and the nuts the most delicious we ever tasted. As we eat them they warm our hearts, for it does us good to think that you thought of us.

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Your letter about my book was especially grateful. To know that you like my settings is a substantial comfort. I had worked on the handbook so long that when it …

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Letter From J. H. Mellichamp To John Muir, 1903 Jan 14., J. H. Mellichamp Jan 1903

Letter From J. H. Mellichamp To John Muir, 1903 Jan 14., J. H. Mellichamp

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Wednesday, 14 Jan.'03.
N[ew] O[rleans,] La.

To Prof.John Muir,
Martinez,Cal.

My dear Sir:

I send you many thanks for the California paper which I received this morning,--surely it is a wonderful state and has everything in its borders to satisfy and delight the heart of man! Were I some 10, 15, or 20 years younger I think I might be tempted to pull up my stakes and even bid farewell to the sea-islands of S. C. where my happiest days have been spent,--but I am too old now to move, for I am seventy-three, and I am getting many ailments …

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Letter From John Muir To Anna [Annie L. Muir], 1903 Jan 13., John Muir Jan 1903

Letter From John Muir To Anna [Annie L. Muir], 1903 Jan 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 13, 1903

Dear Sister Anna

The Bible is here, & I prize it highly, the girls will thank you in their own letters for the highland dirks
You were very kind to send the book. I hope you will soon be well now You are out once more as Maggie tells me We are all as usual. Here are more stamps for your [many?] [illegible] purposes

Ever your loving brother

John Muir

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Letter From Enos A. Mills To John Muir, 1903 Jan 13., Enos A. Mills Jan 1903

Letter From Enos A. Mills To John Muir, 1903 Jan 13., Enos A. Mills

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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ESTES PARK, COLO. Jan. 13 1903.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, California.

Dear Sir: - Your favor to hand, and I thank you for permission to quote from "Our National Parks." - I am doing what little I can to make people friendly to the trees and flowers
I want to have a review with a little commentary of 'Our National Parks in "Outdoor Life", a Denver magazine, as soon as I can procure a Photo of you.
I hope you will soon come to see our rockies,-mountains.
If I can at any time be of service to you, kindly …

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Letter From [John Muir] To A. H. Payson, [1903] Jan 13., John Muir Jan 1903

Letter From [John Muir] To A. H. Payson, [1903] Jan 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1903]

1901

Martinez, Cal. Jan 13,

Mr A. H. Payson,
641 Market St. S.F.

Dear Sir:



The Annual Pass you so kindly & courteously sent me was duly received. It will save lots of bother, & I am with sincere thanks

Very truly yours

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