Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

Digital Commons Network™

Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®

History

Discipline
Institution
Publication Year
Publication
Publication Type
File Type

Articles 25921 - 25950 of 29953

Full-Text Articles in Entire DC Network

Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Kip To John Muir, 1898 Dec 19., George G. Kip Dec 1898

Letter From Geo[Rge] G. Kip To John Muir, 1898 Dec 19., George G. Kip

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dec 19 1898

My dear Prof. Muir,

Tours of 3d [illegible] was a disappointment for us as it was dea[illegible] knell for our hopes of seeing uou, as I have been daily expecting word that you could give us a few hours of your valuable time.
Your delightful account of your trip made me feel as If I longed to be a tree-man and take the identical trip you outlined - you must not forget us as we have

02517

headquarters and then return by Duluth for the Lakes as that is a trip one never tires of - This …

Go to article

Letter From Horace H. Walters To John Muir, 1898 Dec 16., Horace H. Walters Dec 1898

Letter From Horace H. Walters To John Muir, 1898 Dec 16., Horace H. Walters

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Chicago Dec. 16/1898

John Muir

Martinez Cal.

My dear Sir

Your kind letter of 9th was in yesterday. Many thanks for the same. I assure you that we will try to place it where it will do the birds "the most good". Yet I am free to state that, while we greatly need funds, I had much rather have rec. an article from your pen. We shall hope for the latter, after your "rush" is somewhat over. We have formed an organization of two, to try to do something for the birds. Miss Grove is one of the class of …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Dec 13., John Muir Dec 1898

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Dec 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Dec 13. 1898

My dear Sellers,

I'm home & want to hear from you. I think I wrote you from Florida or thereabouts - during my long seasons ramble through the Eastern forests a grand trip which lacked only a visit to your happy home to be about perfect I saw Keith the other day & he told me he had a fine portrait of Mrs S - a new one that I have not. Can't I have a copy? White & Co of New York are getting up a 120 dollar book of biography (American) & they insisted …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1898 Dec 12., John Muir Dec 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Loulu Perry] Osborn, 1898 Dec 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Dec. 12, 1898

My dear Mrs. Osborn

I'm home & find all, including the Wing and Wing walking fern, well Leaving your lovely & loveful cottage I spent a day in New-York. Met Tesla hero Hobson Johnson the Gilders etc. Joined Sargent at Wilmington spent a day in the woods then another about Baltimore, another around Washington enjoying especially the magnificent whiteoak woods. Thence we went to St. Augustine thence to Miami and on to Key West & the Marquesas Keys for palms etc. Thence we returned to Palatka & crossed over to the West Coast at Cedar Keys …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1898 Dec 9., John Muir Dec 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1898 Dec 9., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez California

Dec. 9. 1898

My dear cousin,

Your letter came just as I got home from my long rambles through the eastern forests & I was delighted to hear from your & get the Dunbar news. You must have had a good rest about Edinburgh & a pleasant change It is all so beautiful there. I would have enjoyed the grand roaring storm you mention among the Dunbar rocks if it were not so far how often I would be there. Our lives are too short to see much as compared with the infinite riches God displays in this …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Dec 3., John Muir Dec 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1898 Dec 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Special 66

Martinez Dec. 3. 1898

Mr dear Johnson

I thank you for forwarding my letters & looking back on the New York days of my trip, for your wise & steady kindness in every way The night marches through New York & meetings with Hobson & Tesla are especially notable.
I had a grand time in Florida with Sargent among the palms & pines & vines & magnolias. We parted at a place called - Archer, Fla. & I made my way home by New Orleans stopping two days at Mobile to see the forests there, & one day …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1898 Dec 3., John Muir Dec 1898

Letter From John Muir To [George G.] Kip, 1898 Dec 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal. Dec. 3. 1898

My dear Mr Kip,

I reached home three days agao, & your kind note of the 9th of last month written when I was on my way to Florida reached me today. I should have been delighted to have visited you this summer but my trip has been all given to the forests & it seemed impossible to see one in ten on a score of the friends I wanted to visit I hope the fates will be better to one next time. A sketch of my trip as a whole will show you how …

Go to article

Among The Birds Of The Yosemite., John Muir Dec 1898

Among The Birds Of The Yosemite., John Muir

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

Among the Birds of the Yosemite. 751 AMONG THE BIRDS OF THE YOSEMITE. Travelers in the Sierra forests usually complain of the want of life. " The trees" they say,'' are fine, but the empty stillness is deadly; there are no animals to be seen, no birds. We have not heard a song in all the woods." And no wonder ! They go in large parties with mules and horses; they make a great noise; they are dressed in outlandish, unnatural colors: every animal shuns them. Even the frightened pines would run away if they could. But Nature lovers, devout, …

Go to article

Workaday World, December 1898, University Of The Pacific Dec 1898

Workaday World, December 1898, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Go to article

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1898 Dec 1., Frank H. Scott Dec 1898

Letter From Frank H. Scott To John Muir, 1898 Dec 1., Frank H. Scott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Copy)

December 1st.,1898

My dear Mr. Muir:-We have received a letter from President Jordan of Stanford University asking permission to include in a book of stories about animals your contributions The Water Ouzel and The Dog and the Glacier from The Century Magazine. As you know, the first of these is included in your book on the Mountains of California, and we hope to include the other in another book of yours yet to be published by us. Hence, President Jordan's proposed publication did not seem to us consistent either with your interests or ours, and we were obliged to …

Go to article

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Nov 28., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1898 Nov 28., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

November 28, 1898

X. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. V. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUSL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir,

Here are some notes which came to you after you left and which I have not before forwarded because I have expected a line from you giving your address, but by this time you must be half way across the continent.
I hope you had a glorious time of it in Florida and Louisiana, and that you found everybody well on your return. Please tell Mrs. Muir that we enjoyed very much our all too …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 24., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wanda And Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Nov 24 1898

Dear Wanda & Helen

I arrived here yesterday at 4 o clock in the morning very chilly & frosty - a strange state of weather after so much muggy sticky heat. This is a cool bright sunny day I spent yesterday with Dr Mohr - a good botanist & good man driving down the bay through a grand forest of Magnolia & liquid amber some of each a 100 feet high & 3 or 4 ft in diameter. Just think of magnolias this size I start for New Orleans this afternoon & may take the evening …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Sarah [Muir Galloway] And Annie [L. Muir], 1898 Nov 22., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Sarah [Muir Galloway] And Annie [L. Muir], 1898 Nov 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Live Oak, Fla., Nov. 22, 1898.

My dear Sisters Sarah and Annie:

I am now on my way home by New Orleans and the Southern Pacific after one of the most mazy, wriggling, roundabout wandering trips through the forests of the East side of the Continent I ever made, yet, strange to say, leaving out Wisconsin, Indiana, and Illinois where you and many of my friends are. I've been twice in Canada since leaving home and in all the New England and most of the southern states. I have been down the east side of the Florida peninsula along the …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Nov 22., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1898 Nov 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Nov 22 1898

My dear Sellers

I've been hoping all summer that my good angel would guide me to you through the seasons work, but now it seems I can only wave my hand in salute from this distance in the Florida pines on my way home. It is but little more than two months since I left California, so far however have been my wanderings through these eastern forests & so fast & devious it seems years & years. I came around by the Great Northern to Duluth - down the lakes to Buffalo & thence to …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 21., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Nov. 21 1898

Dear Louie

I'm once more alone but fortunately on my way home.
Sargent & I parted this forenoon at a place called Archer. He went to Jacksonville on his way direct for Boston & I came here to reach the road that leads to New Orleans. The day before yesterday we stopped at Palatka on the famous St Johns River when I saw the most magnificient magnolias some 4 ft in diameter & 100 ft high also the largest & most beautiful hickories & oaks from there we went to Cedar

02507

[2]

[letterhead]

Keys. …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 17., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 17., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Key West, Florida,
Nov. 17, 1898.

My dear Helen and Wanda,

It's very hot here and I feel a little dull and sleepy. mostly from scant allowance of sleep. The night before last there was a fashionable ball at the hotel and the music was horrid loud and kept me awake till 3 in the morning, when they played Sweet Home and went to it. Then yesterday we hired a sloop and sailed over the blue water to the Marquesas Keys for palms, 2 new species, and my! weren't the palms exuberant and the sand fleas and mosquitoes and fiddler-crabs, …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Robert M. Price [To Directors Of Sierra Club], 1898 Nov 16., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Robert M. Price [To Directors Of Sierra Club], 1898 Nov 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Davidson Papers
Bancroft Library

San Francisco, Nov. 16, 1898.

A meeting of the Directors of the Sierra club will be held at 11 30 a.m., on Saturday, Nov. 19, 1898, at room [illegible] Claus Spreckels Building. Miss Annie S. Peck, the renowned mountain climber, is in this city, and it has been suggested that the club endeavor to secure her services for an illustrated lecture. The meeting is called to consider this question, and that of assisting the State Board of Trade in its endeavor to secure better State legislation for the protection of the forests of California.

John Muir, …

Go to article

Letter From Louie [Wanda] Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 15., Louie Wanda Muir Nov 1898

Letter From Louie [Wanda] Muir To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 15., Louie Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Martinez, California.

Nov. 15, 1898

My dear husband

Your two letters of Nov. 6th from Osborne's came just this afternoon. 8 days from the date of the postmark, and those beautiful ferns were 11 days on the way, all owing I suppose to the tunnel fire and blockade. The ferns and moss looked pretty fresh though, so I planted them carefully in fresh leaf mold from the hill, and so perhaps they will live.
Your racing journeys both north and south are a continual surprise to us slow going folk. Only flying birds could follow you, and think that …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 14., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Miama Nov 14 1898

SP.N.

Dear Louie.

We left St Augustine yesterday about ten forenoon & arrived here in the evening at 10.30 The ride down the west bank of Indian River was extremely novel & wild & interesting, miles & miles of the way was through the strangest looking forest of Palmeto the shaggy crowns & long straight or slanting columns showing finely in many places along strembanks, & lake shores, & around broad open meadows with finely curved lines that promontorris & bays. While here & there tall grasses

02502

[2]

& showy flrs & forests on bush …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 13., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen And Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Nov 13 1898

Darlings Helen & wanda.

This is a queer old Spanish town almost the oldest in America. Read about it Parkman. Palms cactuses live oaks hung with long moss magnolias etc & ruins of castles & churches & a lot of immense modern hotels wearisomely grand in which one gets lost.
The best thing I saw coming down the coast from Washington through Virginia Georgia & upper Florida was the happy hopeful bands of bright green long leaf pines. The young ones springing up among grass & dwarf palmettos. A cheerier brighter more beautiful set can not …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 12., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

On train for Jacksonville

Savanah GA

Nov 12, 1898

Dear Louie,

Here is where I spent a hungry weary yet happy week camping is Bonaventura Graveyard 32 yrs ago. Many changes I'm told have been made in its groves & [avenues?] of late, & how many in my life. Have been on the train all night, slept well It is now 8.30a.m. Sargent is out for breakfast I had my coffee 2 hrs ago. S is quite well & we look forward to a pleasant trip thro the Florida peninsula. The weather is cool & healthy.
I'm not yet quite …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 11., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Richmond, Virginia, Nov. 11, '98.
7:30 P.M.

Dear Helen:

The train stopped 20 minutes for supper here, and I've just got back into the car. I can't see much of this famous old town, only a lot of lights in long rows. This morning and yesterday I saw the most beautiful oak woods, some of the trees yellow, some brown and some vivid scarlet and crimson. No trees are more gloriously colored in all the American forests than these eastern oaks. All the way through Virginia thus far they are the same. The reddest of all is the Scarlet Oak, …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Harry F.] Reid, 1898 Nov 11., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Harry F.] Reid, 1898 Nov 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(Original in possession of Prof. Harry F. Reid)

The Arlington, Washington,

Nov. 11, 1898.

My dear Mr. Reid:

I am very sorry that I missed seeing you yesterday. I received your card just as I was leaving the hotel for the train and as I can never find my way alone in these street canyons I could not leave the party. But I hope to see you next year. Give my Kindest regards to Mrs. Reid, and believe me,

Ever most cordially yours,

(Signed) JOHN MUIR

Envelope addressed to Prof. Harry F. Reid, 608 Cathedral St., Baltimore, Maryland.

02499

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 10., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 10., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Washington. Nov. 10, 1898

friend Sargent,

Yesterday at Wilmington drove round town with Canby & Boston Park Commissions. Spent last eve & most of today at Baltimore leave here tomorrow pm.

On way to Florida -

All well -

J.M.

02497

Go to article

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 8., Wanda Muir Nov 1898

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], 1898 Nov 8., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[3]

the forests with Mr Choate and that you have seen so many of the people that she wanted you to see.
We go over to Aunt Margaret's almost everyday; she is as well as usual.
I am glad that Mrs Gilder has such a very good opinion of our looks as to think that we are lovely and like you.
Did you get a letter from Aunt Margaret about the same time that you got ours at New York? she sent you one.

Your loving daughter

Wanda

[1]

Martinez Calif

Nov. 8, 1898

My dear Papa

Your letter from …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel] Muir , 1898 Nov 6., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Strentzel] Muir , 1898 Nov 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

[letterhead]

Nov. 6, 1898.

Dear Louie

It is settled now that I go on a short visit to Florida with Sargent but not by what way I'll return home.
I leave here tomorrow for N.Y. dine with Tesla and perhaps others then meet Sargent at Wilmington Wednesday. I’ve had a fine rest

02495

[2]

in this charming home and feel ready for Florida, which is now cool and healthy. I’m glad to see the South again and may write about it. I was glad to get your telegram answered this morning address letters to Jacksonville Fla. for two weeks …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 6., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wanda [Muir], 1898 Nov 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Wing and Wing,

Garrisons-on-Hudson,

Sunday, Nov. 6, 1898.

My dear Wanda,

I forgot to enclose these leaves in Mamma's letter, and so I send them in this. There is a dear little girl here, Josephine Osborn, whom you and Helen would like. Virginia, who is your age, is at boarding school. Mrs. Osborn is anxious to have you here on a long visit. I am sure you would enjoy it. But the Continent is so wide. The leaves I picked up from the door-step. The maples are very fine here, but this summer's glory will soon be past.
I go …

Go to article

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 4., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1898 Nov 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[3]

I am enjoying a fine rest. I have "the blue room" in this charming home & it has the daintiest linen & embroidery I ever saw. The bed is so soft & fine I like to lie awake to enjoy it instead of sleeping a servant brings me a cup of coffee before I rise. This morning when I was sipping coffee in bed, a red squirrel looking in the window at me from

[in margin: 54]

a big tulip tree & seemed to be saying as he watched me "Oh John Muir! Camping tramping treeclimbing scrambler! Churr, Churr …

Go to article

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] J[Ohnson] To John Muir, 1898 Nov 4., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1898

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] J[Ohnson] To John Muir, 1898 Nov 4., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Nov 4, 1898

[letterhead]

[write two letters inclosed]

Dear Muir:

I have just telegraphed Osborn that you have made two dinner engagements here - one with Mr. Leggett for Sunday the other with Tesla which he has fixed for Saturday. We are expecting Hobson at both dinners. So you ought to come down

02492

tomorrow. Tuesday being a holiday, you can go back Monday night if you wish, though there is talk of a [theatre?] party for you at Jeffersons early in the week- the Gilders party.
Tell those greedy, greedy Osborns that we will [illegible]art of the yearth!!

Faithfully …

Go to article

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 3., John Muir Nov 1898

Letter From John Muir To Wife [Louie Wanda Muir], 1898 Nov 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[3]

Southern Pacific seeing some trees in Texas that I have not yet seen. This will take a week or two longer but I should learn enough to pay for the extra time. If however Sargent should not get well soon I'll most likely bolt straight home the nearest way. One [morning?] in N.Y. is to be given Tesla another Leggett. Pinchot is in Washington, Johnson wants me to go to see the President & preach forestry to him but I guess I wont in the midst of present politics. While out riding this morning I gathered some of the …

Go to article

First Prev Next Last