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Letter From Jullia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir, 1900 Aug 22., Jullia Merrill Moores Aug 1900

Letter From Jullia M[Errill] Moores To John Muir, 1900 Aug 22., Jullia Merrill Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Aug 22 00

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1960 N. Pa. St.

My dear Mr Muir,

Your kind letter of the 24th of July came to me in due time and I thank you for it. It did me good and I have read it again and again. "That we may be able to comfort them which are in any trouble, by the comfort wherewith we are comforted of God." Thus you have done my dear friends. Yet I look around in vain for my dear sister. No one knew how much she was to me but myself - and I did not half …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1900 Aug 16., John Muir Aug 1900

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1900 Aug 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Aug 16 1900

Dear Louie

I forgot to read you the usual sermon on fire before leaving. Be careful about making big fires especially in the afternoons. & watch your washwomen & Ja[illegible]. I left part of my M.S. on the table & so of course the article cant be finished until I return. Dont let anyone clean or dust my room. We arrived here last evening This morning we start on trip round by Bloody Can[on?] & Yosemite. The party is Dr. Merriam & Mr & Mrs Baily & the servants. Mrs Baily is the Doctors sister

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 Aug 13., Charles Sprague Sargent Aug 1900

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 Aug 13., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., August 13, 1900.

My dear Muir:

I notice that Professor George Davidson and a Mr. Manson have published two papers on the forestry of California and the distribution of rainfall. Can't you obtain copies of these for our library?
What are you about and are you coming east to start out September 15th to hunt for Crataegus with Canby and me? I am very busy this summer but really do nothing except grow old and the sight of yen would do more to rejuvinate me than anything I can think of. The sight …

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Letter From Charles [A.] Keeler To John Muir, 1900 Aug 11., Charles A. Keeler Aug 1900

Letter From Charles [A.] Keeler To John Muir, 1900 Aug 11., Charles A. Keeler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Ridge Road and Highland Place,
Berkeley, Cal.,

August 11, 1900.

My dear Mr. Muir:

Ever since our return from the country I have been hoping for an opportunity to go to Martinez to see you, but you will understand why it has been impossible when I tell you that on Thursday night we had a little daughter born. It lived only a few hours, having cone two months before time. Of course it has been a great disappointment to us, but I am happy to say that Louise is doing very well and looks forward to a speedy recovery.
It …

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Letter From John Muir To C. Hart Merriam, 1900 Aug 4., John Muir Aug 1900

Letter From John Muir To C. Hart Merriam, 1900 Aug 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

THE WESTERN UNION TELEGRAPH COMPANY

August 4th, 1900

Martinez, Calif. 4th.
C. Hart Merriam.

U.S. Dept. Agl. Washn. D.C.

All right I will go. Come straight to our house.

Jno Muir

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Letter From W[Illiam] B[Elmont] Parker To John Muir, 1900 Aug 3., William Belmont Parker Aug 1900

Letter From W[Illiam] B[Elmont] Parker To John Muir, 1900 Aug 3., William Belmont Parker

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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EDITIONAL OFFICE OF
The Atlantic Mothly,
BOSTON.

August 3, 1900.

Dear Mr. Muir,

We have been looking eagerly for your paper--the last of the papers on the Yosemite-which your telegram of June 11th bade us to expect in a month. We shall be very glad, if we may, to have it for the October number, out-of-door papers being somewhat belated after that issue, and we can include it if it reaches us by the 18th or 20th of the present month. This, to be sure, will give you but little time after receiving our letter, but we are writing …

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The Wild Gardens Of The Yosemite Park., John Muir Aug 1900

The Wild Gardens Of The Yosemite Park., John Muir

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

The Wild Gardens of the Yosemite Park. 167 world; the doors stand wide open. ' There's somethin' of us that must still live on ; we 've got to join both worlds together an' live in one but for the other.' The doctor said that to me one day, an' I never could forget it; he said 't was in one o' his old doctor's books." We sat together in silence in the warm little room; the rain dropped heavily from the eaves, and the sea still roared, but the high wind had done blowing. We heard the far complaining …

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Letter From W. A. Wilde And Co. To John Muir, 1900 Jul 31., W. A. Wilde And Co. Jul 1900

Letter From W. A. Wilde And Co. To John Muir, 1900 Jul 31., W. A. Wilde And Co.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

W. A. WILDE & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS OF
THE PBLOUBET SERIES,
110 Boyiston Street.

Boston, July 31./00 189Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir:--

Your favor of the 24th just at hand, and we regret that you are not able to write something for our list. Our effort has been, and is at the present time, to bring before the young people only such books as are good, wholesome and interesting, and at the same time, instructive. So many of these books are placed on the co-collateral reading of the school associations of the Middle States that we are particularly desirous …

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Letter From C. Hart Merriam To John Muir, 1900 Jul 30., C. Hart Merriam Jul 1900

Letter From C. Hart Merriam To John Muir, 1900 Jul 30., C. Hart Merriam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
BIOLOGICAL SURVEY
WASHINGTON, D. C.

C. HART MERRIAM, CHIEF
T. S. PALMER, ASSISTANT CHIEF

July 30, 1900.

My dear Mr. Muir:

At last after many delays, I think I can safely count on reaching San Francisco very close to August 14. I expect to spend only one day in San Francisco, and then proceed direct to Tallac on Lake Tahoe, to join Bailey, who has our pack outfit at that place. From Tallac we will go by road to Big Trees and thence across to Mono Lake and return.
I want above all things for …

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Letter From John Muir To [Julia Merrill Moores], [1900 Jul 25]., John Muir Jul 1900

Letter From John Muir To [Julia Merrill Moores], [1900 Jul 25]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Rough draft of letter of Muir - folder marked "J.M. letter to Mrs. Moores on death of her sister Kate."]

To Julia Merrill Moores

July 20,1900

My dear friends.

I scarce need say that I have been with you and mourned with you every day since your blessed sister was called away, and wished I could do something to help and comfort you. Before your letter came I had already commenced to write the memorial words you ask for, and I'll send them soon.
Her beautiful, noble, helpful life on earth was complete, and had she lived a thousand years …

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Letter From W. A. Wilde And Co. To John Muir, 1900 Jul 13., W. A. Wilde And Co. Jul 1900

Letter From W. A. Wilde And Co. To John Muir, 1900 Jul 13., W. A. Wilde And Co.

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

W. A. WILDE & COMPANY,
PUBLISHERS OF
THE PELOUBET SERIES,
110 Boylston Street.

Boston, JUly 13/00 189

Dear Sir:-

It has been suggested to us that we take the liberty off writing you with the hopes that it may result in mutual benefit to us both at some later period.
For some twelve years we have been publishing for young people from about the age of 16 to 22, literature which should be both helpful and instructive, interesting enough to be included both in school libraries and to find its place on the shelves of our public libraries. We have …

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Letter From James D[Avie] Butler To John Muir, 1900 Jul 9., James Davie Butler Jul 1900

Letter From James D[Avie] Butler To John Muir, 1900 Jul 9., James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Madison,

July 9, 1900.

John Muir.

My dear Friend.

It is too long that I have read no written syllable of yours - and know not but you are now a humanitarian missionary in China. - not with blood and thunder. The death of Catharine Merrill brings back many a memory - and those all [precious?], which you and I have in common. - I am looking for the letter to me you dictated to her de profundis where all skill in surgery seemed unable to save your eyes. - What a noble career to the very end. - How …

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, [1900] Jul 9., John Muir Jul 1900

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, [1900] Jul 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, July 9 [1900?]

My dear Merriam

Please correct that blunder by striking out the words "The Whitney Glacier."I expect to see proof.
Be sure to come to our house as soon as you reach S. F. Charlie Keeler is having a fine time in the redwoods and is getting out a book of poems.

Ever yours truly,

JOHN MUIR

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jul 8., John Muir Jul 1900

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jul 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez. Cal. July 8,1900.

My dear Merriam

We are all glad to hear yon are coming to California again and that you will come to see us. I'll try to make a trip into the mountains with you. I'm dying this hot weather for want of exercise and ice.
We are all glad to get the photograph of your grand old father and sorry to learn of his death. I shall always regret that I did not renew my acquaintance with him made thirty years ago. I well remember the kind interest he took in the small humble beginnings of …

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Letter From Octavine C. Briggs To John Muir, 1900 Jul 4., Octavine C. Briggs Jul 1900

Letter From Octavine C. Briggs To John Muir, 1900 Jul 4., Octavine C. Briggs

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

When they are sick and in poverty I go in and work to make them well. We are pretty quiet in our little home and pretty poor so everything that helps makes us glad - Thank you [illegible] so much!

Sincerely yours

Octavine C. Briggs

San Francisco.

452 1/2 Lehama St.

452 1/2 Lehama Street

July 4, 1900

My dear Mr Muir,

It made me glad when you sent that money by Mr Ke[stler?] for my nursing work - You see I live down here among the poor people and am quite alone with just a house-keeper. Our work isn't …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1900 Jul 2., Walter H. Page Jul 1900

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1900 Jul 2., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DOUBLED AY, PAGE & COMPANY
PUBLISHERS
34 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK

July 2nd. 1900.

My dear Mr. Muir:

While I was away from home here came your breezy, icy, bully letter' And the manuscript also reached us and was acknowledged by someone in the office, I believe. But anyway, here is my acknowledgment of it. One of these days I am going to write you a letter worthy of your cheerful spirit and kindly remembrance, and especially of your most commendable energy in getting your part of thie interesting book forward to us so promptly. Let me now simply send …

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Letter From C. Hart Merriam To John Muir, 1900 Jun 28., C. Hart Merriam Jun 1900

Letter From C. Hart Merriam To John Muir, 1900 Jun 28., C. Hart Merriam

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WASHINGTON, D. C,
June 28, 1900.

My dear Mr. Muir:

A recent absence from the city has delayed me in acknowledging the receipt of your long looked-for manuscript and in replying to your kind letters. The paper is good and wo are very glad to have it. My only regret is that you did not make it longer, so as to include the interesting story of your early explorations. I am now reading it carefully, and selecting as many illustrations as possible to go with it
I am very glad to know that you have got rid of the grippe, …

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Letter From Mary Hatch To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Yyyy Jun 27, Mary Hatch Jun 1900

Letter From Mary Hatch To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Yyyy Jun 27, Mary Hatch

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oakland June 27th Dear Lou, A friend of mine reported to me a conversation between two strangers which she overheard while crossing the Oakland ferry the other day. She claimed to hear a name, which she had often hear me mention, of a certain young lady, & so felt interested in the matter on my behalf. Strange is int it, this is the second item of the self same character that has come to me in the same way; the other one proved true, will this one I wonder! I await your reply with the greatest possible impatience. Do be …

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Letter From Francis George To John Muir, June 23, 1900, Francis George Jun 1900

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, June 23, 1900, Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Selby Smelting and Lead Company. Selby, Cal. June 23, 1900 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir, the meeting was held last night and it was voted to sell Mrs. Muir all the stock as they did not see how they could raise the 1000.00. Mr. Petersen does not own any so he said. So I take full possession of money & everything as soon as Report of the Secretary is made out and signed by the President it is that you were forced to take it. I want that signed by them, Your Truly Francis George

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1900 Jun 20., Robert Underwood Johnson Jun 1900

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1900 Jun 20., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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June 20, 1900.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir,Esq.,
Martinez, California.

My dear Muir:

I am glad to get a note from you, though I think I am in your debt. So far as a hard time, I am not killing myself, though Mr. Gilder is in Europe and has been away since the 10th of February, or earlier, but I should be the better if you would turn up in these parts about the 10th of July and go off to the country with me somewhere— I don't …

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jun 19., John Muir Jun 1900

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jun 19., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, June 19,1900

My dear Dr. Merriam

I sent the ice M.S. direct to Doubleday Page & Co. a week ago thinking you might be in the field. I also wrote you at the same time. Doubtless you have received my letter ere this and perhaps proof of the M.S. from the publishers.
The article is general and therefore any of the glaciers will answer as illustrations, the more the better. Harriman Flord should be fully represented.
Since forwarding your article I have sent off another on Yosemite Valley for the Enclyclopedia Britannica Supplement. Now I'm pegging away again on …

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Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1900 Jun 12., John Muir Jun 1900

Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1900 Jun 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

M[illegible]. June 19 Ans. July 2 W H P
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Martinez, June 12, 12900

My dear Mr Page,

I sent by mail today M.S. of ice article for the Harriman book. the receipt of which please acknowledge. & as it is short I hope you will read it, not for wandering words, & sentences out of plumb but for the ice of it. Coming as you do from the unglacial south it may "fill a long felt want". And before you settle down too hopelessly far in book business take a trip to our western Iceland. Go to Glacier Bay …

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Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jun 12., John Muir Jun 1900

Letter From John Muir To [C. Hart] Merriam, 1900 Jun 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, June 12,1909.

My dear Merriam,

I sent the ice M.S. today to Doubleday Page & Co. direct fearing you might be away in the field on summer work. The article is short-3000 words or so - I hope you will see the proof.
Grippe has only lately left me and I am so far behind with work promised Houghton Mifflin I don't know when I will be able to get into the wilderness this year.

Good luck to you -

Faithfully yours,

JOHN MUIR

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 Jun 11., Charles Sprague Sargent Jun 1900

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 Jun 11., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD.UNIVERSITY

Jamaica Plain, Mass, February 11, 1900

My dear Muir:

Thanks for yours of June 3rd with the newspaper clippings. I am of course interested in the movement to preserve the Santa Cruz Redwoods but do you consider that a reservation at that point, useful and desirable as it might be, would reserve a good typical block of the Redwood forest? My idea is that we ought to go somewhere north of Russian River, probably in the neighborhood of Humboldt Bay. I had supposed that the Redwoods south of San Francisco were now very few and scattered, although …

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Letter From Robert Ridgway To John Muir, 1900 Jun 8., Robert Ridgway Jun 1900

Letter From Robert Ridgway To John Muir, 1900 Jun 8., Robert Ridgway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Brookland, D.C.

June 8, 1900

Dear Mr. Muir:

I [have?] just had the pleasure of reading your most interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly for April on the forests of the Sierras. There is just one statement therein that I would challenge, and I cannot resist the temptation to do so. You say that "of all the fifty species of American oaks north of Mexico" that you know "only two - the white oak of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and the live oak of Florida - surpass the mountain live oak in size." Now I spent a …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1900 Jun 3., John Muir Jun 1900

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1900 Jun 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in circle: 71]

Martinez, June 3. 1900

My dear Johnson.

How are you these hot hard work days? I hope you are not killing yourself. Mrs Bidwell wants me to tell you that a Mr Hunt who advertises as the Generals authorized biographer has no authority from her - Of course you have heard of the Generals death. I have been half dead with Grippe most all last winter & am not fairly well yet. Fortunately all the family are. Dont work too hard

Ever Yours John Muir

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Letter From Gilbert H. Grosvenor To John Muir, 1900 Jun 1., Gilbert H. Grosvenor Jun 1900

Letter From Gilbert H. Grosvenor To John Muir, 1900 Jun 1., Gilbert H. Grosvenor

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITOR: JOHN HYDE The National Geographic Magazine

ASSOCIATE EDITOR:

A. W. GRELLY WILLIS L. MOORE
W J McGEE H. S. PRITCHETT
HENRY GANNETT MARCUS BAKER
C. HART MERRIAM O. P. AUSTIN
DAVID J. HILL ELIZA R. SCIDMORE
CHARLES H. ALLEN CARL LOUISE GARRISON

ASSISTANT EDOTOR : GILBERT H. GROSVENOR WASHINGTON, D. C,June 1, 1900

Dear Sir:

The Editors of the National Geographic Magazine respectfully be, that you send them for publication in the Magazine a copy of your latest photograph or of the one that is most satisfactory to you. Wea replanning a series of biographical sketches of the more …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie K.] Bidwell, 1900 May 29., John Muir May 1900

Letter From John Muir To [Annie K.] Bidwell, 1900 May 29., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Let us know your train & I'll meet you at the station]

Martinez, May 29, 1900.

My dear Mrs Bidwell;

That confounded cable car came down on our pleasant conversation this afternoon like a smothering avalanche Now why not come up here all of you before you go home & finish our talk with calm Campfire deliberation? Do come, both the girls are at home & Mrs Muir will be delighted to make your acquaintance. Come on: it is only a two hours ride & a day or two rest in our little valley will do you all …

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Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 May 28., Charles Sprague Sargent May 1900

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1900 May 28., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD.UNIVERSITY

Jamaica Plain, Mass, February 13, 1900

My dear Muir:

I am delighted to get your letter of the 21st. Your letters always oheer and inspire me and I wish I could get more of them. I wish, too, I could go to California this summer and see the Redwoods again hut I must stay at home and do some hard work between now and the middle of September when I suppose I must start forth again to hunt for Crataegus. I shall certainly be able to throw a good deal of light on the genus before I …

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Letter From Sallie Kennedy Alexander To John Muir, 1900 May 24., Sallie Kennedy Alexander May 1900

Letter From Sallie Kennedy Alexander To John Muir, 1900 May 24., Sallie Kennedy Alexander

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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future life bright with promise. My dear Sister I am thankful to feel has grown stronger. She has been up held by her wonderful faith, yet she suffers keenly. She desired me a moment since to give you her love - and to add to what I had already written, the hope that you could let us know in the event you could come to S. F, the day before you were to come - that we might not have started on one of the proposed expeditions of "sight-seeing"

[in margin: Many thanks for the most interesting and instructive …

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