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Letter From Aug [Augustus] F. Rodgers To John Muir, [Ca. 1900]., Augustus F. Rodgers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

IV

He is an all round man [illegible] Science and without pretension of any kind & I am sure you would like him. Turn again to the custom of a few years back when you used to give me an Occasional Visit. I Shall be glad to see you either at home or office. I hope your family is well.

Very truly yours

Aug. F. Rodgers

1900

[1]

Prof John Muir

My dear Muir

I do not know if you remember me, it has been so long since we met. I have frequently heard of you in San Francisco, but …

Letter From John Muir To C. Hart Merriam, 1900 Jan 1 ., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 1, 1900.

My dear Dr. Merriam,

With all my heart I wish you a happy New Year and congratulate you on getting your desks cleared for new work this strange-sounding A.D. 1900. Mine are far from clear. I'm still pegging away on trees and brush for a little book on National Parks Forest Reserves etc. Hope to get it off my hands by early spring when I may take another run through the southern forests with Sargent, and may then chance to find you ere you take flight for the summer. I'm glad to hear of the good …

Letter From M. S. Griswold To John Muir, [Ca. 1900]., M S. Griswold

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]
cca1900[y?]

[letterhead]

My Dear Old Friend,

John Muir:

My first impulse was to make my address to you somewhat more formal, putting perhaps an "Esq." or "L.L.D." after your name, but have concluded finally on plain "John Muir" just as Hawitt and I always speak of you. I noticed and of course read with the utmost pleasure, I assure you, your Article in the Atlantic Monthly of this month, recounting some of the experiences of your earlier years, and among those sundry incidents of your life at University, where I became acquainted with you, and I may add also …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, [1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (54)

[1900]

Dear Sir:

I can't write a thousand word sketch. I was born in Scotland. When I was 11 the family emigrated to Wisconsin, where I helped to make two farms, went to the Wis. State Univ. 4 years, and then vanished in the wilderness. That's all. Odds and ends of particulars you can get in Am. Biography, and in a mag[azine] I send with photo.

Yours truly,

J. M.

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Letter From John Muir To Henry T. Gage, [Ca. 1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To his Excellency Henry T. Gage,

Thanks for your memorable action on Sequoia presevation. X Hope you will approve protection of the Meadowlark Californias favorite songbird. does a thousand times more good than harm even to the farmer

JM

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Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, [1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (57)

W. A. Wilde & Go., [1900]
110 Boylston St.,
Boston.
Dear Sir:

I should be very glad to add to your list of books. But as I have now already 3 books on hand promised Houghton Mifflin and the Cent[ury] Co., and far from finished, it will be some time before I can undertake anything further.
With thanks for your kind letter, I am,

Very truly yours,

J. M.

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Letter From John Muir To Mr. [William E.] Colby, [1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (52)

[1900].

Dear Mr. Colby:

I shall be very glad to know you better, and will call the first time I'm in the City. In the meantime come to my home the first chance you have.
Do you know how much virgin forest is left in the Santa Cruz region, and how much has been lumbered?

Ever yours very truly,

J. M.

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[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (56)

[1900]

Mr. Wm. E. Colby,
Secretary Sierra Club,
Merchants Exchange Building,
San Francisco.

Dear Mr. Colby:

Many thanks for information concerning proposed …

Letter From Harry P. Kuhn To [John Muir], [Ca. 1900]., Harry P. Kuhn

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

6207 Alder Street,

Pittsburgh.

Pa

Dear Mr. Muir

I should like very much to have your autograph. Will you please sign it on the enclosed card? Hoping you will grant my request,

I am,

Very sincerely yours,

Harry P. Kuhn, Jr.

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Letter From John Muir To [Mina] Merrill, [Ca. 1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter returned to Miss M. Merrill] [Co. 1900]

[Indianapolis]

Thank you. Miss Merrill, for your good invitation.
I will come if I may be permitted to occupy the "benmost bore" of the society room. If there be any passing to and fro between the animal and vegetable kingdoms the most likely transformation will be that of a certain Scotchman to Brassica rubrum.

Cordially,

J. Muir

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Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [Louie Strentzel Muir], [Ca. 1900]., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[2]

she doesn't have concious airs or many fancy trills but seems to be singing perfectly and naturally yet you can hear her glorious voice to the farthest corners of the house. de Reszke and the others are wonderfully fine too. You must try to hear them. I have a ticket for next Saturday night also I would give you that but it is way up in the second gallery. I can either go home next Friday evening and come back Saturday or go home Sunday morning and come back Monday which ever you would rather have me do, but …

Letter From L. M. Powers To [John Muir], [Ca. 1900]., L. M. Powers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

My dear Mr Muir

I wish very much for your photograph to hang beside those of [illegible] and Burroughs on my study walls. [illegible] mountains you have made me love them more - Have [illegible] seen yours yet but hope to before I die I would not trouble you if I knew where I could send, any photographer or engraver -

Yours [s?]incerely

L.M Powers

196 Lancaster[illegible]

Buffalo

[N.?]Y.

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Letter [Poems] From Mrs. Browning To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], [ ] Browning

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

From Cry of the Human The plague of gold strikes far & near And deep and strong it enters. This purple chimar which we wear, makes madder than the centaur’s: Our thoughts grow blank, our words grow strange, We cheer the pale gold-diggers – Each soul is worth so much on ’change, And marked, like sheep with figures. Be pitiful, O God! The house of clouds Bring a grey cloud from the east where the lark us singing (Something of the song at least Unlost in the bringing) That shall be a morning chair Wisdom unapplied I would not champ …

Poem From Mary Hatch To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Mary Hook Hatch

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

All poets love to have an olden time, a time so far removed from precent kin, whose records of high deeds of Chivalry, of love perchance, perchance of hate or war, are glamoured o’er, by time such radiance lent to this our workday world. And even we, so circumscribed by fact and so hummed in by wired electric, bored by daily news gleaned by reporters all omnipotent. That fancy ne’er can wing her airy flight to the celestial regions of romance, are fain, like pilgrims on the parched plain, to leave the plodded path, although we know ‘twill lead us …

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, Undated, Francis George

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There is a man that wants to buy the west ½ of lot 6 b20 & he wants $400.00 at 10 per cent interest to be secured by morgage [sic] as you spoke to me about loaning and money. The property is free from incumbrance [sic] as I seen the abstract on said lot. If you will let him have the money and I will make out morgage [sic] and send it to you so you can see that it is correct & then return to me so I can have him sign & make him pay all expenses & …

Letter From[Charlotte Hoffmann] To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], Charlotte Hoffmann

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Oakland, 518-27th Street, My dear Mrs. Muir, You need not worry, for Mr. Sutton tells me it is not necessary that Wanda shall be here until the fifteenth, or even the seventeenth, if she prefers. The Chairman of the special students committee, the one who is to take Professor Bradley’s place, has not yet been appointed, so nothing can be done. Wanda is to bring her letter with her when she comes down, and Mr. Sutton says he is sure the new Chairman will admit her on Professor Bradley’s recommendation, even if she is not yet twenty – one. What …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, [1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (53)

[1900]

Dear Sargent:

Shut yourself up at home or elsewhere and get your dry book done, or come out here and explore the redwoods. Like you, I'm bothered and made barren by a thousand small nothings. The grippe has gone, but articles go on forever, 1 had to write a Harrlman Expedition article, and I foolishly undertook an article on Yo[semite] for the Encyclopaedia Britannica Supplement which is not off my hands. Now I'm trying to finish this long string of Park articles to be ready for Mexico, etc,.with you in the …

Letter From [John Muir] To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, [1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (55)

[1900]

Wm. H. Thompson,
Vallejo, Cal.

Dear Sir:

I shall be glad to see you, and assist any way I can in your Cal. book work.

With beet wishes,
Yours truly,

J.M.

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Letter From Aunt Marg To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], No Date, Aunt Marg

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear Louie May [ ] just been here telling me about poor dear Helen. And to think Helen was so sick and I so close bye and did not know about it. I knew she had a cold when I saw her Sunday and have been asking Soon every day if she could go to school yet but all I could learn from him by talk or signs was that Helen had a cough and sore throat. I wish I could come over and see her and yourself and Wanda but am not so well as I might [by]. I …

Windham, Maine In The War Of The Revolution, 1775-1783, Nathan Goold

Maine Collection

Windham, Maine in the War of the Revolution, 1775-1783

by Nathan Goold

Letter From Wanda Muir To Mama And Helen Muir, Circa 1900, Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Pacific Grove, Thursday Dear Mama and Helen, We are going to Santa Cruz tomorrow to see the big trees. We have been to Monterey and down on the beach most of today, saw some lovely shells (in the stores, not on the beach) and bought a few. We went to see the San Carlos Mission, but could not go in. Saw a great many old adobes in Monterey, but none that were as pretty as ours. It is a homely scattered [sic] town but it is not nearly as foggy over there as here. Yesterday we took several long walks, …

Letter From Helen Muir To [Unknown], Circa 1900, Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

3 …Keenie. A little while ago Papa and I walked down to Mr. Zumwalt’s camp, about half a mile from here. They both seem to be very pleasant old people and we had a nice little visit. It is now lunch time and at 1:30 we start for Paradise. So there is no time for more just now. Do take care of yourself and write often if only a few lines. Wannie is well and happy and sends love. Good bye for this time. Lovingly, Helen P.S. What did you do Fourth of July? You remember that on the 3d …

Poem From [John] Muir To Robert Underwood Johnson, Undated, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Letter From John Muir To [James Davie] B[Utler], [Ca. 1900]., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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My dear old friend Prof B

Your good kind letter & picture does my heart good. How rich & beautiful your life is. Altogether delightful & how blessed a life too has been Miss Merrills When 34 yrs ago you compelled me to know her you pushed me into one of the very best & most influential friendships of my life. Yr letter i remember was most per[illegible]ly knowing & kind knowing my weakness I was desperately shy (I am still) I went again & again to her [illegible] I could summon up courage enough to knock But Thanks …

Poem From Helen [Muir] To Wanda [Muir], Undated, Helen Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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The Consent Of The Governed, Bradley M. Thompson

Articles

The acquisition of the Philippine Islands has aroused a profound interest in certain constitutional questions. This is not to be deplored. One of those questions is the meaning, the force and effect of the statement in the Declaration of Independence that "all governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed." That doctrine is not embodied in the constitution in those words nor in words of similar import, but some contend that the Declaration of Independence is a great beacon fire kindled by the fathers of the revolution and that in its light the constitution, afterwards adopted by …

Workaday World, January 1900, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Letter From Jeannette W. Donner To Mrs. Muir [Louie Stentzel Muir], 1899 Dec 26, Jeannette W. Donner

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Suisun, Dec. 26/99 Dear Mrs. Muir, As the dear old Saints and our Saviours birthday has passed, I wish to thank you sincerely and heartily for your kind remembrance. Books are something I always appreciate and I am getting quite proud of my little library composed of my dear mother’s books, some of papa’s gifts, and yours. Tennyson is one of my favorite authors and poets. We are taking up Shakespeare every evening now. [ ] he we means my father, stepmother, and myself. Papa understands him thoroughly and explains very clearly. We are a happy family, as Papa married …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1899 Dec 16., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass, December 16, 1899.

My dear Muir:

How are you getting along? Better, I hope, than we are in this part of the world. I have had a horrid attack of bronchitis which kept me in the house for ten days and which is still troublesome but better, and my oldest daughter on her return from Europe was taken with typhoid fever, fortunately not a bad case. She is better but not sitting up yet.
Crataegus still bothers me and seems a hopeless task. I do not think I shall ever finish it.I have …

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1899 Dec 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

as to opening attenuata cones, and the long lide of this tree

Martinez, Dec. 10, 1899

My dear Mr Lukens,

I never shelled out the tuberculata (or attenuata as it is now called) pine seeds I only know that the cones never open until the tree dies & it seldom dies until it is attacked by fire I suppose a quick scorching of the cones would cause them to open without destroying the vitality of the seeds, but great care would be required. Perhaps a summers toasting in the sun would also be effective.
The handsome tree with flat fern …

Workaday World, December 1899, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.