Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[A. H.] Sellers
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Transcription
Martinez June 24, 1898My dear Sellers I congratulate you on the happy journey onward of your good father the so called death - of a good man in ripe age is no more to be deplored than the bright sundown end of a good day Both an [alike?] natural & ordained by God's love.You need not lament my failure to get the flowers of the magnifica Silver Fir that trip with you, for I at last found them in all their glory. After searching the woods above Donner Lake & in the Washoe Range I went to Shasta, wallowed up through the snow nearly to the timberline. found not a single female flower & only one tree with a few immature male ones. Then went up the Scott mountains with no better results. Went home & corresponded with the botanists I had engaged to collect [illegible] elsewhere, but hearing nothing promising from them & the time of close of bloom drawing nigh I went again to Truckee where I left you & thence up the Sierra to the rest of the
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1898-06-24T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0223-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0223
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
Clifton Waller Barrett Library of American Literature, Special Collections, University of Virginia Library . Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
