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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Jan 16., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 16, 1896My dear Mr JohnsonI was just about to write you last night when your letter came with the very information I wanted, I was afraid you were sick in the sleety New York & was fretting about Bowers being on the Land Com. Those firey Volcanic Carbuncles are deadly things & we rejoice that you have come safely through the battle.
I felt sure you would find Runcie level & useful on Yosemite & park affairs & I am glad we are to have a National forestry Commission brought forth under such favorable & formidable auspices
When …

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Jan 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Jan. 14, 1896.

My dear Johnson

Next Saturday the patrons of the Sierra Club will hold a meeting, & then will no doubt take action on the recession of Yosemite to the Federal Government Even Vice President Olney, friend of J.P.[I?] favors this move at last. & at least nine tenths of the people of the state would if they cared enough to think or act in the matter.
Hoping the New Year is dealing kindly with you & yours, I am

Ever devotedly yours

John Muir

Letter From John Muir To [Sidney V.] Smith, 1896 Jan 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Rough draft of letter found on back of voucher marked, in Muir's handwriting, Moreal Acct., Jan. 13, 1896.this voucher date probably has no bearing no date of letter itself.]
My dear Sid Smith:

I see by the newspapers that like good old Paul the Apostle at Bphesus, you are fighting with wild beasts. This is not so very hard to a clean generous soul, but 1 fear from what I read last eve that some one you loved and trusted or almost loved has been unfaithful, and gone over to the enemy. This, from my own experience, is cruelly hard …

Letter From Fay H. Sellers To John Muir, 1896 Jan 12., Fay H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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commenced work on my photography and carbon work, and as I think you must by this time have given my pictures of you all away, one of the first things I do will be to make and send you another dozen. How is Mrs Muir, her mother and the dear little girls? Give them our love and tell them I would like to go to California, just to get a peep at them. Much kindest regards I am

Sincerely yours

Fay H. Sellers

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Chicago Jan 12-96

[letterhead]

Mr dear Mr. Muir.

Santa Claus has been very good to …

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] To John Muir, 1896 Jan 9., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINES
UNION SQUARE NEW YORK

January 9th, 1896

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

This is the third week of a tussle with a carbuncle.Most of the time I have been confined to my house, though I have not been wholly invalidated for work; but I want you to know that if it had not been for this I should have written to you to wish Mrs. Muir and you the compliments of the season, and to tell you that I am …

Letter From D[Avid] G[Ilrye] Muir To [Ann Gilrye Muir], 1896 Jan 5., David Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Original letter in possession of Mrs. Mary Muir Hand].

Martinez, Calif.,
Jan. 5, '96.

My dear Mother:

I suppose you think by this time that I ought to write you, and I think so too. To begin with, all of the friends and relations here are well. John, Louie, Wanda and Helen have been here this afternoon, all blooming full of health. Maggie is just as usual, and John R[eid] is getting a little fatter. John Jr. is 21 now and thinks he is quite a man. May and her husband have rented the Woolford place and have moved into …

Letter From W[Illia]M [P.] Gibbons To [John Muir], 1896 Jan 3., William P. Gibbons

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Alamada 1/3d. 1896

Dear John

I have just got out of bed. After are unwilling residence here of 4 moths, during which time I might as well have been out of the world, If you come to S.D. come over & see me, for I will not be able to go out for a month more. My love to all the family with the greeting of a happy New Year. I am

Yours very truly

Wm. Gibbons

I have lost so much flesh that my hand is somewheat shaky, but perhaps things will now grow better.

Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island, Edward Field

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This is a digitized version of Edward Field's Revolutionary Defences In Rhode Island: An Historical Account of the Fortifications and Beacons Erected During the American Revolution, with Muster Rolls of the Companies Stationed Along the Shores of Narragansett Bay. It includes the full text of the book along with illustrations and drawings of the various fortifications in the colony during the American War for Independence.

Linnaeus., Charles Dudley Warner

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

9077 LINN/EUS (1707-1778)' BY JOHN MUIR SraEygHE immortal Linnaeus—Carl von Lmne — was born in Sweden, * a cold rocky country now famous forever. He was born in @4§?§i the bloom-time of the year, May 13th, 1707; and contemplating this great event, one may easily fancy every living thing dancing and singing and clapping hands for joy. Whether descended from sea-kings and pirates as is most likely, or from fighting Normans or Goths, matters not; for he was a lover sent of God to revive and cheer and bless all mankind. And this h@did in spite of crushing poverty, and …

Tenth Annual Report Of The Governors Of The City Of Dublin Technical Schools And Science And Art Journals For The Session 1895-96, City Of Dublin Technical Schools

Annual Reports

Report

Appendix A:: Results of examinations held April, May and June, 1896.

Appendix B: List of life members, annual subscribers and donors for the year 1895-6.

Appendix C: Return of attendances of the governors fro the period 1st. January, 1896 to present date October 1896.

Cash account from 1st. August 1895 to 31st. July, 1896 including revenue account and cash balance.

Charles Lamb., May Brown

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

Biographical sketch of British essayist Charles Lamb (1775-1834).

Letter From W[Illiam] E. Colby To John Muir, [1896?]., William E. Colby

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Wednesday a.m.

My dear Mr. Muir:_

We have the enemy on the run, but they are telegraphing here for reinforcements as you see by to-day's papers. The most important hearing of all takes place next Tuesday. I wish it were possible for you to go on.
Anyway a brief note from you to each member of the Public Lands Committee will do worlds of good. Only a line stating that you are sending a pamphlet which contains pertinent information that you rely on them to save the park from destructive invasion etc.
It ought to get off …

The National Parks And Forest Reservations., John Muir

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

268 Publications of the Sierra Club. PROCEEDINGS OF THE MEETING OF THE SIERRA CLUB Held November 23, 1S95. The annual public meeting of the Sierra Club was held in. the hall of the Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, on the evening of Saturday, November 23, 1895. The topic announced, '' The National Parks and Forest Reservations" had brought together a large audience of members and friends of the Club. Mr. Warren Olney, Vice-President, called the meeting to order, and introduced the President of the evening in the following words: "Ladies and Gentlemen: — It is the good fortune of the …

A Wind-Storm In The Forests., Charles Dudley Warner

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

10405 JOHN MUIR (1836-) !f0HN Muir, an explorer and naturalist, whose field of work has WapM. been particularly the western and northwestern mountain fegfe&M regions of America,— where at least one great glacier now bears his name,—was born at Dunbar, Scotland, in 1836. With his parents and a large flock of brothers and sisters, he came to the United States in 1850, after some good common-schooling in Dunbar. He began his study of nature in the region near Fort Winnebago, Wisconsin, with an ever increasing interest and delight in whatever belongs to the world of creatures, plants, and stones, particularly …

The Athens Browning Circle Catalog, Browning Circle Library

The Browning Circle Collection Documents

The Athens Browning Circle Library used this catalog to record materials as they were added to the library collection.

Letter From John Muir To Annie [L.] Muir , 1896 Jan 1., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 1, 1896

Sister Annie.

David came over day before yesterday with all the notes mother gave him when he gave her the house & I got out the three you & mother gave me & we counted up the whole indebtedness interest & all & found it amounted to $3016.43.
Now David says that the priceagreed on definitely for the house & lots between him & mother was $2600, but because he had planed a $500 mortgage on the property he refuesd to take more than $2100 with the understanding that the balance $500 would be allowed when …

Letter From Mary Barr Munroe To John Muir, [1896?]., Mary Barr Munroe

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

P.O. Box 178,
Cocoanut Grove,
Dade Co., Florida.

[1896]

Dear Mr. Muir:

No one was ever more delighted at receiving a remembrance than I was when I found your promised book among my mail one morning just before Christmas. Thank you. And I do not believe that anyone ever enjoyed a talk with you more than I did, not even Professor Sargent himself.
You made me again proud of being a Scotchwoman, but of that I am proud every day. How I should delight in seeing you again. I hope I shall.
Mr. Munroe wishes to be remembered most kindly …

Letter From Francis George To John Muir, 1895 Dec 30., Francis George

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Dec 30th 95

Mr John Muir

Dear Sir

I enclose Ck for 21 00/100 which is due you for rent to Jan 1st 96 for house on lot. 1 B. H. 12 00
" " " " 2 " " 9 00
house on lot 7 has ben vacant since Nov 1st. And I also enclose statements for lots sold & rents received since our last settlement since Nov 17th 1893.
I have only charged to 4% for collecting sent. the total amount due me to date is $103 20/100. please & examine & see that everything is O. …

Letter From Sarah [Muir Galloway] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 26., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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last. I wonder when you will be able to visit us again. I have about given up all hope of ever seeing Louie here.

I am as ever Affectionately

Yours Sarah


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Portage, Wis.

Decr 26th /95

Dear brother John

Your letter and order was received and today I had it cashed. To Mother I handed five dollars. To Annie and Joanna their portions, to also to Ethel, Bessie, and Bernice Celia and Grace I will send tomorrow and to Anna G. E. the first opportunity. so you will probably hear from all of them soon. In this way …

Letter From Catharine H. Hittell To John Muir, 1895 Dec 25., Catharine H. Hittell

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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San Francisco

December 25th 1895

Dear friend Mr. Muir

My love for California's beautiful forests compells me to write to you my fears about the new Committee on Public Lands appointed in the present House of Representatives.
I write to you because I know that you are the best friend of our forests and of the other natural beauties of California. My fear for the forests raises from the fact that speaker Reed of the House has appointed on his Committee on Public Lands Mr. Bowers of Southern California.
Enclosed please find what Mr. Bowers

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says in …

Letter From [Author Unknown] To John Muir, 1895 Dec 23., Unidentified

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Somers, Dec. 23rd. 1895.

Mr. John Muir,

Your book “The Mountains of California” has given such pleasure to one reader that she wishes to express gratitude to the author. My trip was a limited one and taken many years ago, but so far as ray experience went, your book confirms and revives my impressions. It was read with keen enjoyment and sympathy and many another will follow its pages with the same zest. The lines were not inspired by the book, but perhaps they will be in touch with it. My name has no significance and so it is not …

Letter From Joseph Leggett To John Muir, 1895 Dec 20., Joseph Leggett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

December 20th, 1895

John Muir Esq.

Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir,

Your letter of October 18th, 1895, though so kind and courteous, gave me and the other members of our Lecture Committee a pang of disappointment. Mr. E. A. Denicke since then had the pleasure of hearing you speak before the Sierra Club, and at the next meeting of our Committee he exclaimed: "Oh if we could only get Mr. Muir to give that talk to the members of our Institute!" I have felt all along as though I could not give you up. Many years ago I read your …

Letter From Earl Marble To John Muir, 1895 Dec 19., Earl Marble

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

PRESS CLUB OF CHICAGO

Dec 19, 1895.

Professor John Muir

My dear Sir--

I do not know whether you will remember me or not; but I met you once in 1889 at the house of Mr. Swett in San Francisco, and was introduced to you by his lovely daughter Emily, since deceased.
My table last summer had on it your interesting book, "The "Mountains of California," of which Imade a notice and from which I made extracts, which I inclose to you, thinking you might like tosee them.

-Very respectfully yours,

Earl Marble


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Letter From J. E. Mathewson To John Muir, 1895 Dec 15., J. E. Mathewson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Dec. 15th, 1895.

Dear friend Muir

I hope you will excuse me for the long delay in replying to your kind letter of the 30th of April.
It was placed carefully aside in my desk at the office to await a favorable opportunity to reply to same, but unfortunately every time it appeared to me until now my time & attention were demanded on pressing business matters. I hope that you are not thus so much taken up with worldly affairs. However I might feel contented now without business worries, but should

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible] Yosemite

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Martinez, Dec. 13. 1895

My dear Johnson,

I'm pegging away at Yosemite & forest affairs & interest in a general way seems to be growing though it is hard to get any definite thing done. I think our members of Congress will support any reasonable forestry bill & I am looking for the appearance of one that we can all work for. How goes the battle with you heavyladen worker Let me have a line ere long
Best wishes for the New Year Blessings big and many O.

Ever Your friend

John Muir

Letter From John Muir To [Fay H.] Sellers, 1895 Dec 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Dec. 1, 1895

My dear Mrs Sellers,

I'm sorry to hear you are not likely to come our side the continent this year. Hotel Green is said to be a good shelter though the Raymond is smoke, but Mr Sellers business I fear will be the most insurmountable difficulty. So Keith & I will have to pick out a sketch for you instead of waiting to have you do it yourself.
I was in Pasadena a week or two ago & met Mr Rust who showed me many morters, arrowheads, baskets & other odds & ends of a vanishing …

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.], 1895 Dec 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

sends me a copy of Picturesque Cal as gift

Martinez, Cal. Dec 12, 1895

My dear Lukens,

I send you today by express a copy of Picturesque California, also a copy of same to Muir M. McKelsey whose address is Pacific Brass Works Los Angeles. Please drop him a line & tell him to call for his book.
In this book I have four chapters the best of which is Mt Shasta to which I call your attention, also to Mrs Carrs on Los Angeles.
I'll send photo of the children later All my memories of my visit to you …

Letter From F.B.Perkins To John Muir, 1895 Dec 7., F. B. Perkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

532 - 24th St

Oakland Dec 7, 1895

Dear Mr Muir,

On the mantel shelf of the room where I write are the pictures of your children whom I have come to almost reckon as my own, & to think that their smiles belong to myself personally.
And along with this has grown my desire to see & talk with their father once more. Do let me know when you will be in the vicinity again. If possible do come here & see us: the latch string reaches out to the street. Or if you cannot do this let me …

John Muir On Yosemite. The Mountaineer And Writer Says That The Valley Is Wrecked. 'Downtrodden And Desolate.' He Tells What He Saw And Wants The Government To Take Back The Valley., John Muir

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

O CALL, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1895. JOHN MUIR ON MIT The Mountaineer and Writer Says That the Valley Is Wrecked. "DOWNTKODDEN AND DESOLATE" He Tells What He Saw and Wants the Government to Take Back the ! Valley. The opinions and declarations of John Muir will cat a good deal of a figure in the promised controversy over the ways of the Yosemite Commissioners regarding the valley and the proposition to cede the valley back to the National Government, and Mr. Muir is anxious to start a campaign to carry out that proposition, as well as to secure further protection …

Letter From Luther B. Yaple To John Muir, 1895 Nov 15., Luther B. Yaple

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

LUTHER B. YAPLE,
ATTORNEY AND COUNSELOR AT LAW,
ROOMS 7 AND 8, HOWSON BLOCK.

Chillicothe, Ohio, Nov. 15, 1895.[/89?]

Mr. John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Sir;-

Upon my desk lies your book, "The Mountains of California", which I have just read and re-read with the greatest possible interest. Your book is so delightful, and I am so much pleased and in-instructed by it, that I felt I should express to it's author my gratitude and add my voice and word to the many who have doubtless ere this, expressed to you personally and by letter, their high appreciation of …