Creator
Melville B. Anderson
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
To John Muir Esq., LL.D.and my prayer is that it may long be so. You are writing an autobiography destined to take a place apart in that most interesting & instructive order of literature. You never wrote better: the book bids fair to be classic. I have heard you say you hate to write; but it is not the facile, it is the reluctant, who write the real books. Keep this in mind, for it means you, and press on toward the mark of your high calling. Pardon this exhortation from an unworthy admirer.Ever affectionately Yours,Melville B Anderson
Location
Florence [Italy]
Date Original
1913 Feb 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 26.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir21_0109-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0109
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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