Creator

C[arlotte] H[offman] K[ellogg]

Recipient

[John Muir]

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3out the few trees we want to screen us in - Vernon has to go to S.F. this week end for exposition work and the following to Berkeley for a lecture, then on the 26th we start for our Lands of quiet and delight, for the Easter week. We are trying to rent this house for the summer. We shall be in Berkeley where Vernon has (I think unwisely) consented to give a summer-school course, part of the time and the rest at Carmel.I dont know why I should be boring you with an itinerary, except that I am wondering if you know when the next Sierra club meeting is (Vernon doesn't!) and if you can't plan & come down to us then. I suggest that time only as being perhaps easier for you. We shall be here until the 26th except the Saturdays and Sundays2[in margin: if you could come sooner than the Club date. At any rate send us a card saying how you feel - We think of you so often as you don't know with what affectionsCharlotte.]Strong-winged. My imageries are mixed, but you wont mind that.Jean shut the door and ate some candy she had been told not to eat, behind it to-night. She seemed extremely contrite when reasoned with - her about her deception, but just as she was going off to sleep a few minutes ago, I heard her chuckling to herself and saying gleefully "I ate it behind the door!"What would you do?She is helping me beat down the adobe these days, We are gradually getting things into shape - that is putting

Location

Stanford Univ., Calif.

Date Original

[ca. 1913]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.

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muir21_1148-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 21, Image 1148

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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

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