Creator
W[illiam] P. Gibbons
Recipient
John Muir
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Alameda 4/7. 1896Dear JohnI had mentally appropriated last Monday to the pleasurable recreation of making a visit to your household, but the weather said hay. & so I kept count in the house, that being a safe & comfortable refuge. And now, if external conditions will coexist with internal inclination, you will find me on the train of next Monday morning: if so I will telepgraph at 16 K St. Station. Meantime, by virtue of my August position aas chairman of the section of Indigenous botany & half a dozen other tact appendages, of the Med. Soc. of the State of Cal. - Officer more imposing in title than in fact - I have written a report for the annual meeting to be held in Los Angeles on 18th prox. entitled. "On the Origin & Distribution of Forest Trees of the Pacific Coast," wherein I have indulged in some profound remarks which bear some resemblance to a hyperbolic curve, which is constantly tending towrad a central point without ever getting there. In this connexion I have wrought in your gigantean name, to corroborate a theory, & have taken your statement as published in the Proc. of the Am. Assoc. 1870. of the extent & lo-02079
Location
Alameda [Calif.]
Date Original
1896-04-07T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0114-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0114
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
