Creator
Ludlow & Abby H. Patton
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]to hear all we can say about the mountains and the mountaineer. If we brought one ray of light to you who were “helplessly [illegible] and corralled within the narrow bounds of the wee cabin”, you with your knowledge and love of Nature, made “all out doors” seem grander and more beautiful to us, and so I add “Providence be praised”. My first impulse on reading your letter was to give a part of it at once to the New York Press so that other people might hear of your little [6,00?] mile walk, and of your visit to the [chiecals? -] who not only wished to make you a chief, but also promised you a dark skinned maiden00889[3]for a wife. Then I though I might be stealing the thunder with which you intend to astonish the literary world through Scribner or some other magazine. I still think if you will allow it, that a most charming note can be made of your letter and I bide your answer. As this is a speculative age I began at once to plan how you could make a fortune by giving “talks” all the way from the Pacific to the Atlantic. I suppose if you could walk 100 miles or so a day you might have enough exercise to be willing to be shut up with an audience an hour in the evening, but if you were fatigued and did not like to come out in dress coat and [light kids?], you could just go to your hotel and telephone your speech over to the assembled multitude, what think you?
Location
Hotel Branting… N[ew] Y[ork]
Date Original
1880 Mar 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 15 x 26 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0059-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0059
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
