Creator

C[harles] W[alter] Carruth

Recipient

[John Muir]

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2of yours, though besides the great [illegible] of material that you already possessed you must have many of those finely penciled notebooks, set with thumb-nail sketches jotted down during your researches among the forests of Oregon and Washington and in "strange lands and far." If I cannot read of these things in published books or magazine articles I must perforce come up to the Alhambra valley and hear something of it from your own lips, which will be infinitely more delightful.Will, after [halting?] between Forestry and Music, chose the latter and after playing with orchestras for a couple of years, saved up his money for a two years stay at Yale, and is now there studying harmony, composition, Theory and the Pipe Organ. He is a fine pianist and a very competent organist, having studied04990

Location

[place unknown]

Date Original

[ca. 1911 Apr]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 17 x 27 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir20_0274-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 20, Image 0274

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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.

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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

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