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Letter From Warren Olney To Stephen M. White, 1896 Dec 17., Warren Olney Dec 1896

Letter From Warren Olney To Stephen M. White, 1896 Dec 17., Warren Olney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(COPY -letter from files returned to Mr. Warren Olney)

San Francisco, December 17, 1896.

Senator Stephen M. White,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

I desire to acknowledge the letter you sent me in regard to the reservation of that portion of the Sierras bordering Lake Tahoe on the west. Before Senator Perkins went to Washington 1 was in constant communication with him in regard to the matter. President Jordan of Stanford University was in Washington on official business lately and made the matter of this reservation a subject of special consideration. He had interviews with the Secretary of the Interior …

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Letter From Henry K. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Henry K. Abbot Dec 1896

Letter From Henry K. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Henry K. Abbot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

No.23 Berkeley Street, Cambridge, Mass.
December 16 1896

My dear Sir:

I inclose cuttings from last evening's paper, which I am sure you will be interested to have. I was there less than a week ago to see Sargent about some matters connected with our report. When in New York at the meeting of the National Academy in November he injured his ankle badly by stepping in a hole in one of the new parks. The bone was not broken, but the tendon was so strained that his leg was put in plaster when he reached home. This enabled him …

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Letter From Harriet N. Conness To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Harriet N. Conness Dec 1896

Letter From Harriet N. Conness To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Harriet N. Conness

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Prof. John Muir:

Dear Sir:_

I enclose invitation which I very much desire you to honor. you will not be called upon. to do anything. but give us your countenance_
Regards to your wife_

Truly_

Harriet N. Connes

Dec 16th 1896.

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Robert Underwood Johnson Dec 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Dec 16., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

December 16th, 1896.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

A Merry Christmas to you and yours! This is the first time I have written that sentiment this year.
You will be very sorry to hear that night before last Prof. Sargent's house at Brookline - or rather the south wing of it, including the drawing-rooms- was destroyed by fire,- a loss to him of $25,000. He succeeded in rescuing some of the heirlooms and pictures, but they were considerably damaged. I know you will …

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Letter From Arnold Hague To John Muir, 1896 Dec 15., Arnold Hague Dec 1896

Letter From Arnold Hague To John Muir, 1896 Dec 15., Arnold Hague

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Washington, D.C., Dec. 15, 1896.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

My dear Mr. Muir:-

I have lately had a call from President Jordan, of Stanford University, in relation to reserves north of the Yosemite National Park, and south of the Central Pacific Railroad. He brought with him letters from the Sierra Club to the Secretary of the Interior, asking that some such reserves be set aside, and also stated that it would have the support of Senators White and Perkins.
Professor Sargent has been confined to the house with a very badly sprained ankle since his return from the West. …

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Letter From Mary Elizabeth Parsons To John Muir, 1896 Dec 10., Mary Elizabeth Parsons Dec 1896

Letter From Mary Elizabeth Parsons To John Muir, 1896 Dec 10., Mary Elizabeth Parsons

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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may someday be my good fortune to meet it on its native meadow.
I enjoyed the mountain flowers exceedingly at Deer Park.
I think we are specially favored in being able pass on up into the full spring tide of the mountains, as soon as our lowland blossoms have fled.

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Dec 10 1896

My Dear Mr. Muir.

I thank you very much for your kind letter.
I fear I have made you a good deal of trouble about the little Arctic Daisy. I hope it will soon be described and properly determined as it surely must deserve recognition …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Dec 9., Gifford Pinchot Dec 1896

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Dec 9., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GIFFORD PINCHOT,
CONSULTING FORESTER,
NEW YORK.

UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING,
FOURTH AVE. AND 22D ST.

Dec. 9th, 1896,.

John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, Cal.

My Dear Mr. Muir:-

I am going to take the liberty of sending -you another copy of my little book on the White Pine, because I want very much to have you see it, and because I am fearful else the copy which I sent you last Spring may have been lost. If the two reach you safely perhaps you can find someone else upon whom the burden of one of them may be thrown.
As Prof. Sargent …

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Letter From David S. Jordan To Warren Olney, 1896 Dec 9., David S. Jordan Dec 1896

Letter From David S. Jordan To Warren Olney, 1896 Dec 9., David S. Jordan

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

COPY
Washington, D. C. Dec. 9. 1896.

Mr. Warren Glncy,
101 Sansome St., San Francisco, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

I have taken the first available afternoon since coming here to talk over the Sierra Reservation with Secretary Francis and Commissioner Lamereaux, and I find them strongly in favor not only of shutting out interlopers from the Tallac region, but of preserving the entire crest of the Sierras. Secretary Francis has directed Mr. Arnold Hagua of the Geological Survey to look into the matter. He is a member with Professor Sargent of the subcommittee on Forestry Reservations. I have arranged with Mr. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1896 Dec 8., John Muir Dec 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Margaret Hay Lunam], 1896 Dec 8., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California, Dec 8. 1896

My dear Cousin.

Yours of Nov. 13th is received & I was as I always am glad to hear from you. I got home from my far & wide wanderings months ago & found all well & they are still well as usual. By this time the discharge of grandfathers trustees has probably reached Mr Notman & so that business will soon be closed if all goes well.
Mr Comb has not, it seems to me acted altogether honorably in the matter in begging compensation for his trouble after having already been well paid. …

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Letter From Harry Fielding Reid To John Muir, 1896 Dec 5., Harry Fielding Reid Dec 1896

Letter From Harry Fielding Reid To John Muir, 1896 Dec 5., Harry Fielding Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: Prof Reid]

[letterhead]

Dec #5th 1896

My dear Mr. Muir,

It's been a long time since I have heard from you, but I have often thought of you and wondered how you were. Mr. T. Brook Whitworth wrote me last spring that you were about to make another visit to Alaska; Wish I could have gone with you. I took my whole family over to Switzerland and, leaving them at our hotel, I spent all the time I could studying the glaciers. I shall publish the results late in the winter & will send you a copy of …

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Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 3., Charles Sprague Sargent Dec 1896

Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 3., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
December 1, 1896.

My dear Mail":

I am delighted to see the handwriting in your note of November 27th, a cheering sight to one in my physical condition.
As for your syndicate letters you know what ought to be said a great deal better than I do. My idea would be in a general way to write them in such a way as to arouse a general interest throughout the country in western forests, that is describe their beauty, importance, something of the trees that compose them and the destruction through fire, sheep, …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Charles Sprague Sargent Dec 1896

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
December 1, 1896.

My dear Mail":

I have been re-reading Douglas's Journal as we agreed I should do. It does not seem to me, on the whole, to be interesting enough to wairant [ellegible] publication. If you find that there is no copy in the library of the Academy, I can send out to you for perusal the volume containing it if you would like to have me do so. He certainly claims that he measured Pinus Lambertiana 57 feel in circumference. He also claims, however, that he found Pinus poderosa 55 feet …

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Letter From Janet [Douglass] Moores To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Janet Douglass Moores Dec 1896

Letter From Janet [Douglass] Moores To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Janet Douglass Moores

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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but he is happy--in being married to the brightest, prettiest, sweetest, most attractive little woman - sensible too and extraordinarily intelligent - "up" so to speak. a "biological specialist" and, I should like to know what she doesn't know. You should hear her advance theories--at 25--which we have demonished at 37 [isn't it an awful age?] It is very interesting and amusing to have so young a member of one's household.


986 Penn. St. December 1st. 1896.

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My Dear Mr. Muir.

Thank you for letting me know of your return from that vast, unknown, mysteriously interesting region-Alaska-
I …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Nov 28., Charles Sprague Sargent Nov 1896

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Nov 28., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
November 28, 1896.

My dear Muir:

I am much obliged for your notes about the distribution of Pines, etc. You blandly suggest my doing justice to pinus ponderosa and Pinus contorta in The Silva. I do not know, however, how you expect me to do it. I thought I knew a little of something about these trees before I got in with you and travelea in the west this summer. Now my ignorance about them is supreme. As it is always easy to write of things one does not know, I shall perhaps …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1896 Nov 27., John Muir Nov 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1896 Nov 27., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Thank me for near 200 photos of N. of the Tuolumne, also that he had talked to Secy. McAlister as to his not [illegible]ing lists of names for membership.

Martinez, Nov. 27, 1896

My dear Mr. Lukens.

I have received the magnificant lot of photographs you sent me & am very much interested & obliged. I hope I shall be able to make good use of some of them as illustrations. In looking them over I wanted to ask you a good many questions suggested. & hope when you come here to be able to do so. I wrote to …

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Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1896 Nov 23., Katharine Merrill Graydon Nov 1896

Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1896 Nov 23., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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thankful one is for shelter & warmth!
I am busy and weary from top to toe, and when these pesky Sunday talks are over, I want to come up. That was a sweet day you all gave to Mrs. Bettis and to me - how much it was to her I am sure you can not realize - and I want to come soon again.
Goodnight. With love to all,

Your friend,

Katharine M. Graydon.

November 28, 1896.

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Nov 23 96

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Dear Mr. Muir,

Yesterday I had a talk with a dear friend here, Mrs. Nash (do …

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Letter From Bolton A. Brown To John Muir, 1896 Nov 21., Bolton A. Brown Nov 1896

Letter From Bolton A. Brown To John Muir, 1896 Nov 21., Bolton A. Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Stanford University Nov. 21. 1896.

Dear Mr. Muir

I have wanted to see you many times since last year; and have remembered with pleasure that you had asked me to come again. But until now something has always kept me from getting around to come and now, you see I have not come but only write to ask how you do, - how things are at your house; and to say that if we - my wife and I - knew a time when it would be convenient for you we might perhaps come and see you. I have told …

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Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Nov 21., Robert Herrick Nov 1896

Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Nov 21., Robert Herrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

Nov 21, 1896

John Muir, Esq.

Martinez, Cal.

My dear Sir:

I send herewith my little account of my friend, Philip Abbot. It has already been submitted - with another draft - to his parents and approved. I hope that you will find it what you want for the Sierra Bulletin, although I am aware that the mountaineering interests are not treated at special length. Mr. Abbot, although

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an enthusiastic and devoted climber, had not in the nature of things been able to accomplish unusual feats. Whatever he did that was of special interest has been …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 19., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 19., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

November 19th, 1896.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

I inclose herewith a letter from Mr. McClure of the MoClure Syndicate and Magazine. Prof. Sargent (with whom I have been talking over the matter to-day) and I both think that you could do a great deal of good by writing these articles, and we trust the terms will be satisfactory to you.
In any event, please communicate direct with Mr. McClure as his offer is, of course, only a tentative one, and is dependent …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 14., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 14., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

November 14th, 1896.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,

ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,

ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir, Esq.

Martinez, California.

My dear Muir:-

I have been in correspondence with Prof. Sargent, whom I have also seen, in regard to the letters which you have in mind about the forests. On his return from Washington in the first part of next week I shall hope to have a decision to make to you.
I have been in communication with three syndicates, and I think, on the whole, the best way would be to have the letters distributed through McClure, …

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Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Nov 5., Charles Sprague Sargent Nov 1896

Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Nov 5., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 5, 1896

My dear Muir:

I am delighted to see your hand-writing again. I have been home a fortnight but have been too busy to even think much about all the good times we had together last summer. It was the best trip I have ever made and the pleasure ana profit I got out of it was largely due to you.
I am going to New York today and shall see Johnson at the Century Saturday night, and next week I am going to Washington to talk forestry matters over with …

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Letter From Henry K. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Nov 4., Henry K. Abbot Nov 1896

Letter From Henry K. Abbot To John Muir, 1896 Nov 4., Henry K. Abbot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

No. 23 Berkeley St. Cambridge, Mass
November 4 1896
My dear Sir:

I was greatly pleased to receive your pleasant letter of 14th ult. It reminded me of so many incidents of our long trip that I could wish it were beginning instead of ended. I brought back one live capture that has already given much pleasure to my mother,now ninety seven years old. I mean your book. Her eye sight is so affected that she depends on loud reading for amusement,and certain of the Chapters, especially those on the Douglas Squirrel and the Water Ouzel have filled her with …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To Emma [Muir], 1896 Nov 4., Sarah Muir Galloway Nov 1896

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To Emma [Muir], 1896 Nov 4., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage Wis. Nov- 4 /96

My dear Sister Emma

I have been thinking how lonely you must be, and am wondering if you are feeling better and how you are all getting on. I hope that your health is improved and that the family are well. I have not heard anything from brother Daniel for some time, he must be feeling terribly lonely too. Most people are hoping that under the new administration the country will see better times, I hope and pray that there may be a change in that direction. You will have fine schools in Hillsdale …

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Letter From John Muir To Charles Notman, 1896 Nov 1., John Muir Nov 1896

Letter From John Muir To Charles Notman, 1896 Nov 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Cal U.S.A. Nov 1, 1896

Chas Notman Esq

My dear Sir

Yrs of Oct 16 with purchase in favor of our grandfathers trustees
came duly to hand & day I telegraphed to my Sister Anne asking her whether she had received the 25 pounds interest on the RR shares due last August & in reply received the same day she said that she had received the 25 pounds less expenses etc., But my brother David who for more than thirty years was a merchant in Portage & who cashed all the interest drafts sent by Mr Combs tells …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1896 Oct 29., Alfred H. Sellers Oct 1896

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1896 Oct 29., Alfred H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oct 29, 1896

My dear Muir.

Your very welcome letter of the 15th just reached us at our little hunting lodge on the shores of Puckawa Lake near your old home in Wisconsin, where as a boy you followed the plow barefoot and, at least mentally, d_d the sand burrs.
Fay and I were greatly rejoiced to learn of your safe return for we had just read the account of a man falling 70 feet in a crevice at Cook's Inlet and dying before they could get him out. as this occurred at the very section you had gone …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Oct 28., John Muir Oct 1896

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Oct 28., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Oct. 28, 1896

My dear Johnson

I am home & settled after a long eventful summer I suppose ere this You have seen Sargent & know where we have been & the work we have done. I fondly hope that now something permanent will be done for the management of our grand woods.
The parks of the Sierra are in Capital order & if the authority of the military could be extended over the Sierra reservation it would be as well cared for as the parks without calling for a single soldier more or the expense of another dollar …

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Letter From Edwin H. Abott To John Muir, 1896 Oct 24., Edwin H. Abott Oct 1896

Letter From Edwin H. Abott To John Muir, 1896 Oct 24., Edwin H. Abott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMPANIES.

PRESIDENT OFFICE.

WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMPANY
WISCONSIN CENTRAL R. R. CO.
MILWAUREE & WINNEBAGO R. R. CO.
CHICAGO, WISCONSIN MINNESOTA R. R. CO.
EDWIN H. ABBOT,
PRESIDENT.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., Oct. 24, 1896.

Prof. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Thank you very much for your letter of October 14th. My brother Henry has just left me on his return east, and will be very much gratified, I know, to find that you enjoyed his company as much as he did yours. I have rarely heard him speak with such warmth, of the gaining of a new friend …

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Letter From Geo[Rge] Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Oct 23., George Hansen Oct 1896

Letter From Geo[Rge] Hansen To John Muir, 1896 Oct 23., George Hansen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Jackson, Oct., 23d. /96.

My dear Sir,
In spite of the upset state of our home, I can not refrain from sending you those few words my heart dictates. I have received your letter, your remittance, and your book. I am fully appreciative of your kindness, and I promise that as soon as we again live in a home, I will go to work and pick out what you order from collection.
"Meanwhile do not feel hurt if I can not steal the time to entirely peruse your book. Do not mind me making such confession, but I think, it …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Oct 21., Gifford Pinchot Oct 1896

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1896 Oct 21., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

GIFFORD PINCHOT,
CONSULTING FORESTER,
NEW YORK.

UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING,
FOURTH AVE. AND 22D ST.

Oct. 21st, 1896.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

I am sending you this hasty note (typewritten at that) just to say that I find a copy of The White Pine was sent to you as President of the Sierra Club in San Francisco. If it does not turn up speedily please let me know and I will be very glad indeed to send you another copy. I hope your opinion of it may be somewhat more favorable than that expressed by Mr. Fernow. …

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Letter From Otto Sarony To John Muir, 1896 Oct 19., Otto Sarony Oct 1896

Letter From Otto Sarony To John Muir, 1896 Oct 19., Otto Sarony

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oct. 19 1896

My dear Muir,

I cannot under stand why the cards have failed to arrive I marked the package myself & mailed them. they may turn up in a day or two

very truly

Otto Sarony

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