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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 22., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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be long remembered "Over the Muir [illegible] the heather" The heather is just coming into bloom & it is glorious. Wish I could camp in it a month. All the scenery is interesting but nothing like Alaska or California in grandeur. Tomorrow Im going back to Edinburgh & next morning intend to start for Norway. Where I will write Possibly I may not be able to catch the boat but guess i will. Thence Ill return to Edinburgh & then go to Switzerland. Love to all Dear Wanda & Helen here is some bell heather for you. Ever yours …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul 13., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jul 13., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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& I seemed a boy again & all the long eventful years in America were forgotten while I was filled with that glorious ocean psalm.
Tell Maggie I'm going today to see Miss Jaffry the minister's daughter who went to school with us.
And tell Mama that the girl Agnes [Purvis?] that could outrun me married a minister & is now a widow living near Prestonpans. I may see her.
Goodbye dear. Give my love to Grandma & everybody Your loving father

John Muir

[1]

Dunbar Scotland

July 13. 1893

Dear Wanda,

It is about 10 o'clock in the …

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Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Jul 12., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Helen [Muir], 1893 Jul 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Knockinhair

Dunbar Scotland

July 13, 1893

Hello Midge, my sweet Helen are you all right. I'm in Scotland now where I used to live when I was a little boy, & I saw the places where I used to play & the house I used to live in I remember it pretty well, & the school where the teacher used to whip me so much though I tried to

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 12., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 12., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To Mr. Muir

Dunbar, Scotland, July 12, 1893.

Dear Louie:

I have been here nearly a week and have seen most of my old haunts and playgrounds, and more than I expected of my boy playmates. Of course it is all very interesting, and I have enjoyed it more than I anticipated. Dunbar is an interesting place to anybody, beautifully located on a plateau above the sea and with a background of beautiful hills and dales, green fields in the very highest state of cultivation and many belts and blocks of woods so arranged as to appear natural. I have …

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1893 July 12 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir Jul 1893

1893 July 12 Jm To Louie P1, John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Dunbar, Scotland, July 12, 1893.

Dear Louie.

I have been here nearly a week and have seen most of my old haunts and playgrounds, and more than I expected of my boy playmates. Of course it is all very interesting, and I have enjoyed it more than I anticipated. Dunbar is an interesting place to anybody, beautifully located on a plateau above the sea and with a background of beautiful hills and dales, green fields in the very highest state of cultivation and many belts and blocks of woods so arranged as to appear natural. I have had …

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Letter From Ja[Me]S M. Hay To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1893 Jul 9., James M. Hay Jul 1893

Letter From Ja[Me]S M. Hay To [Margaret Hay] Lunam, 1893 Jul 9., James M. Hay

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Mersey View House,
Birkenhead, 9 July, 1893.

My dear Mrs. Lunam;

I duly received your note and was much interested in your account of Mr. John Muir's visit. I write specially to say that no doubt when he is about to return to his American home he will do so by way of Liverpool, and we offer him a hearty welcome to our house here for the few days he may have to spare after his visit to Switzerland and the wonders of the Continent.
I should like to introduce him to one or two here, Sir isdward Hussell, for …

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Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Jul 7., Wanda Muir Jul 1893

Letter From Wanda Muir To [John Muir], 1893 Jul 7., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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pictures. Now take good care of your self Papa. Please write to me again soon. From your own ever loveing daugher.

Wanda Muir.

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Martinez, Cal.

July, 7. 1893.

My dear Papa

I hope that your enjoyed the voyage and that you are safe in a beautiful part of the land beyond the sea. We read in the papers that the Etruria reached England on the first of July. How did you spend the glorious Fourth? We had a perfectly grand time here. Mr Coleman bought

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a lot of sky rockets, Roman candles and lots and lots …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 6., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[town?]. They were very cordial & are determined to get me away from the hotel I spent the evening there talking family affairs, [auld lang syne?] glaciers wild gardens adventures etc till after 11, then returned to the hotel. Here are a few flowers that I picked on the Castle Hill on my walk with Douglas for Helen & Wanda. I pray Heaven in the midst of my pleasure that you are all well Edinburgh is apart from its glorious historical associations far the most beautiful town I ever saw I can not conceive how it could be more …

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Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 2., John Muir Jul 1893

Letter From John Muir To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jul 2., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the voyage ended- Through the Century people I found [Seton Karr?] who, as you well remember tried to climb St Elias with Sch[illegible]a. He was on his way home from Africa where he has been hunting lions. The Century will have one of his hunts. Also the Paris artist & sculptor who designed the grand fountain in the Chicago fair grounds. The weather even on the ocean has been sultry most of the way. Here it is pleasant but rather warm in the sun.

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[letterhead]

July 2, 1893

Dear Louie. I arrived here this forenoon. The Etruria dropped …

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Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1893 Jun 29., Ann Gilrye Muir Jun 1893

Letter From [Ann G. Muir] To Dan[Iel H. Muir], 1893 Jun 29., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage June 27th 1893

Dear Danl.

I sincerely congratulate you on this your fifteeth Birthday hoping Heavens best blessings will ever rest on you and on all your family It is a [source?] of great comfort to me to think all of my family have been spared thus far —


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Last week I had a letter from John informing me that he would leave New York for Scotland on the 24th of this month on the [illegible] steamer Etruria and expects to be across the ocean in seven days, I hope he will have a safe and pleasant …

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Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], 1893 Jun 27., Wanda Muir Jun 1893

Letter From Wanda [Muir] To [John Muir], 1893 Jun 27., Wanda Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Cal.

June 27, 1893

My dear Papa

I received your letter from New York saying that you would start on the 24th for Europe so I suppose this letter will find you in Scotland or Spain or England or [s?]omewhere the other side of the Ocean You need not worry about Helen for she is very, very well and the weather very coole and deliteful , we have not had a single hot day since the 3d

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of June, as for cherries there are none, they have been gone for several days and there is no other fruit …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 25, Robert Underwood Johnson Jun 1893

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To Mrs. Muir [Louie Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 25, Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Please command me if I can serve you during Mr. Muir’s absence in any way. June 25, 1893 Address The Players, 16 Gramercy Park. The Century [ ] Union Sq. [Square] N.Y. [New York] Dear Mrs. Muir: I am very glad to sat that Mr. Muir could not have had a better day for sailing than was [vouchsafed] to the [Etruria] yesterday. I went to the Steamer with him and saw that he did not leave her at the last moment. I introduced him from my place on the dock to my friend MacMonnies who was standing near him and …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 24., Ann Gilrye Muir Jun 1893

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 24., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[in margin: 557]

We are all well as usual and sincerely hope you will be protected from every danger in your chosen path through life

Affectionately

Mother

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PORTAGE, WIS.

June 24th, 1893

Dear John

Your letter informing me of your intention to sail today for Scotland came safely I sincerely hope your voyage across the ocean will be safe and pleasant and that you will enjoy a visit to the Dear old home of your young days I also hope you will

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will not forget to make a visit to the cemetery where so many of …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H., Fay, Emma And Frank Sellers], 1893 Jun 24., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From John Muir To [A. H., Fay, Emma And Frank Sellers], 1893 Jun 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York

June 24

1893.

Dear friends, I'm off today on the Etruria for Liverpool. Keith went nearly three weeks ago. He is in a fussy hurry & I dont know whether I can catch him in the European wilderness or not as I am not at all familiar with the canons there. I had no intention of staying here so long, but I couldn't help it. The Century people took possession of me & made me go to dinners, clubs, famous people, places & things without number rhyme or reason. Strange to say many of the people seem to …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York

June 23, 1893

My dear Wanda

I was delighted to get your charming letter yesterday. Yours & mamas came together Mr Johnson sent a boy with them to the hotel. He also sent the telegram, then came Helens letter & you may be very sure I was happy. I am going to sail for Europe tomorrow & I will now go without feeling so bad though I do feel lonsome about going over three alone. But I suppose Ill find friends & feel better than I expect. for everybody is good to your papa wherever I go. I …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From [John Muir] To Helen [Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York, June 23, 1893.

Hello, sweet Midge,
Darling Helen:

You don't seem so far away now, for I got your beautiful little letter a little while ago. This evening. Mr. Johnson gave it to me at the Players' Club at suppertime. I'll be glad when you get big enough to go with me. I didn't think, you little sweetheart, that you would write so well. You must write to me when you are thinking about me when I am on the bright blue water like Paddy Grogan, and when I am in Scotland. When you have to cook on …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 23., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York, June 23, 1893.
Dear Louie:
I received your letter of June 15 yesterday. Also Wanda's and the telegram telling Helen was well, which more than anything else did me good. I am very glad to hear that all goes fairly well, particularly that you and grandma are getting better.
As to your joining me at N.Y. I fear the excitement of so much travel, change of food, and above all the wearing, exhausting nerve excitement of going through the huge fair will be far beyond Helen's strength, We should begin, I think, with very much shorter and simpler …

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Letter From John Muir To R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson, 1893 Jun 22., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From John Muir To R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson, 1893 Jun 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

"Nature loves the number five". Four conundrums & a doggerel To my friend R. U. Johnson

Why is R. U. J's Kindness like a grasshopper's track? Because it makes the earth beautiful and few know how it is done.

Why is it like a star? Because it is steadfast and ever in bloom.

Why is it like the ocean? Because it is 'boundless, endless & sublime'.

Why is it like a glacier? Because nothing can stop it And it discharges in big chunks.

John Muir

New York

June 22, 1893.


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Letter From John Muir To [Louie Muir], 1893 Jun 22., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Louie Muir], 1893 Jun 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

To my friend R. U. Johnson.

"Nature loves the number five" Four conundrums & a doggerel

1 Why is R. U. J's Kindness like a grasshopper? Because it makes the earth beautiful and few know how it is done

2 Why is it like a star? Because it is steadfast and ever in bloom

3 Why is it like the ocean? Because it is boundless, endless, & sublime

4 Why is it like a glacier? Because nothing can stop it and it discharges in big chunks

O for a lodge in some vast frigeration, some boundless contiguity of frost some …

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Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 21., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From [John Muir] To Louie [Strentzel Muir], 1893 Jun 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

New York, June 21 1893

Dear Louie. I bought my ticket yesterday for Liverpool & will sail on the Etruria, instead of the Adriatic as I first intended. The former being a much faster & better boat & I would gain nothing in time by going today. I was very glad to get news from home through Wandas letter of the 12th. As I was anxious about Helen. I am sorry to hear of grandmas illness, I suppose she has been doing too much work in hot weather. The weather here is very hot & sultry. I'm melting …

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Letter From D[Avid] G[Ilrye] Muir To John Muir, 1893 Jun 21., David Gilrye Muir Jun 1893

Letter From D[Avid] G[Ilrye] Muir To John Muir, 1893 Jun 21., David Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez June 21/93

Dear Bro John

I have just come over to your house to bring some cherries & Louie suggests that I write a few lines to assure you that your family are all quite well. Helen looks much stronger than she did last summer. She has had only one little sick spell since you left & that lasted less than a day, we had two or three hot days about June 1st but since the 3d it has been delightful weather

the th[illegible] not getting much 70°. I have been reading some of your letters you or certainly …

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Letter From Louie [Strenzel] Muir To John Muir, 1893 Jun 21., Louie Strentzel Muir Jun 1893

Letter From Louie [Strenzel] Muir To John Muir, 1893 Jun 21., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California

June 21, 1893

My Dear John,

Your letter of June 16th is just received and there is time for a short letter only before the mail closes I have just telegraphed to you that Helen is very well, fearing that you are still anxious & uneasy about her. She is growing finely, & seems bright & strong all the time. Since that hot Saturday, June 3d the weather has been almost constantly delightful, ranging between 65° & 75°, so that we have spent most of the days out in the garden, & among the trees. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jun 20., John Muir Jun 1893

Letter From John Muir To [Annie] Wanda [Muir], 1893 Jun 20., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[letterhead]

[in margin: The Thyme was very sweet]

New York, June 20 1893

Dear Wanda I got your nice letter yesterday It was dated June 12. I was feeling very lonesome not getting any letters from home for so long. I suppose you will say that you thought I would be away, & that therefore it would be no use to write. But I think I told you all that it would not matter whether I was away because Mr Johnson would forward them wherever I went. It has been & is very hot here & I always feel …

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Letter From Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 20., Margaret Muir Reid Jun 1893

Letter From Maggie [Margaret Muir Reid] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 20., Margaret Muir Reid

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Gal.,
June 20, 1893.

My dear Brother John;

I received your very kind and thoughtful letter a little while ago. How good it is for you to think of me, dear John, and I thank you for it. Your letter did me lots of good.
I am real glad to know that you are pretty well, and standing your trip and writing and so much excitement of so many kinds as well as you are. Take real good care of yourself, dear John, for I know you will pass through many dangers ere we see you again, and I …

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Letter From J.D.W. French [American Forestry Assoc] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., J. D.W. French Jun 1893

Letter From J.D.W. French [American Forestry Assoc] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., J. D.W. French

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

American Forestry Association
(FORMERLY AMERICAN FORESTRY CONGRESS.)

HON. J. SETERLING MORTON, Nebraska city,Neb.,President.
Hon.H.G. JOLY, Quebec, Can., 1st Vice-President.
J.D.W. FRENCH, Boston, Mass., Corresponding Secretary.
N.H. EGLESTON, Washington, D.C., Recording Secretary.
HENRY M. FISHER, M.D., Philadelpea, Pa., Treasurer.
(WITH A VICE-PRESIDENT FOR EACH STATE)

Executive Committee.
B.E. FERNOW, Washington, D.C. Chairman.
E.A. BOWRRS, Washington, D.C.
CLEVELAND ABBS, Washington, D.C.
E.T. ENSIGN, Colorado Springs, Cal.
HENRY E. PELLAW, Washington, D.C.
JOHN D. JONES, Washington, D.C.
[WITH THE OFFICERS OF THE ASSOCIATION]

Life Membership, 850.00
ANNUAL DUES, 82.00

160 State St., Boston, June, 19, 1893.

John Muir, Esq.,
The Century Magazine
,New …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To Sir Dietrich Brandis, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot Jun 1893

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To Sir Dietrich Brandis, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Biltmore, N.C.

June 19, 1893,

Dear Sir Dietrich,

It give me great pleasure to introduce to you Mr. John Muir, whose successful struggle for the reservation of about one-half of the western side of the Sierra Nevada has made him so well know to the friends of the forest in this country. Mr. Muir has made for himself opportunities of observation which have been used to give him a knowledge

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of the Sierra unapproached by anyone else, and I am confident that his intimate acquaintance with the Geology, Botany and Forestry of the region will be of very great …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To W. Schlich, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot Jun 1893

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To W. Schlich, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Biltmore, N.C.

June 19, 1893.

Dear Dr. Schlich,

It give me very great pleasure to introduce to you Mr. John Muir, through whose efforts about one half of the Sierra Nevada in California has been reserved, to become later on a regularly managed government forest. You will find, as I have done, a store of scientific observation open to you through him which rests upon an unparalled

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acquaintance with the [illegible] and I am confident that Mr. Muir's conclusions about the cause of the distribution of the Sequoia and the influence of fire in the distribution of the western …

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Letter From Charles Walter Carruth To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., Charles Walter Carruth Jun 1893

Letter From Charles Walter Carruth To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., Charles Walter Carruth

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Oakland, Cal. June 19 1893

Dear Mr. Muir:

Your very kind note acknowledging receipt of the little booklet of verse which I sent you last winter I am ashamed to say I never answered. I will now say that the feeble sonnet therein [illegible] to you is but a [illegible] voicing of the admiration and regard that I feel for John Muir, the [illegible] and friend of Nature, whose only fault form a literary point of view is that he writes all too little. I have mailed you a number of sonnets written since the booklet was printed. If …

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Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot Jun 1893

Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1893 Jun 19., Gifford Pinchot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Biltmore, N.C.

June 19, 1893.

Dear Mr. Muir,

I beg your pardon most sincerely for my delay in sending you the letters which go by this mail. it was very careless of me, but the matter slipped my mind completely. I have been in camp for a week, or it would have been attended to before. Of the letters I send you, that to Dr. ([illegible] Sir Dietrich,) [Brandis?] will, I thin, be the most valuable

His position as a [illegible] as well as his achievements as a forester put him in a position to introduce you to the most …

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Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 18., Ann Gilrye Muir Jun 1893

Letter From Mother [Ann Gilrye Muir] To John Muir, 1893 Jun 18., Ann Gilrye Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Portage June 18th 1893

Dear John

Your two letters from New York have been very gladly received It must be very gratifying to you to find so many friends and to be able to visit so many historic places that we have talked and been reading about so often I am glad your health holds out so good admidst so much visiting

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we are having very hot dry weather with high winds, but at such times we can stay within doors We have had a visit from Anna and Jessie Reid they are both now in Chicago where Mr. …

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