Creator
Dr. K. Keck
Recipient
[John Muir]
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Transcription
Aistershaim, Upper Austria,Dec. 15, 1875.Dear Sir:It is Mr. Sereno Watson, Cambridge, (Mass.) to whom I am owing the notice you might perhaps be willing to exchange botanical specimens with me. Allow me then to introduce myself to you as a zealous colleague in the "scientia amabili" to whom it would afford the highest satisfaction to enter in direct relations with you. I may state that I am in correspondence with many of our leading botanists, besides possessing a very rich herbarium and collecting myself a great number of plants. At all events, you may rely upon obtaining a full return. The transmission of our packages to the care of the Smithsonian. I shall be happy to have to this a reply in the affirmative.I am, with the highest consideration,Very truly yours,Dr. K. Keck.
Location
Aistershaim, Upper Austria
Date Original
1875 Dec 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0357-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0357
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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
