Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[ Annie Kennedy ] Bidwell
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Transcription
Copymade May 23. 1917920 Valencia St.San Francisco,March 16th 1880,Dear Mrs Bidwell.Here are a few bits of botanical odds and ends from Alaska. The little viny twinflowered specimen is the blessed Linnaea that I was telling you about. The others are mostly heathworts- Ledum, Kalmia, huckleberries, and cranberries, etc. which I will name for you when I get time to look over them carefully.I want to send you a copy of a paper that Gray read for me at a meeting of the American Assoc, on mountain-building, but though I have searched diligently in every conceivable corner have failed to find it. My papers get mixed and scattered on account of having no fixed camp. Here is a copy of an old Overland article, the first of a series of studies some ten or twelve in all, which is the next best thing I have to offer on the subject, and which I hope may help to make plain some points too briefly treated in my lecture. As it is my only copy I shall have to beg you to return it- Keep it half a year or so.I have accomplished hardly anything as yet in the way of writing. my time has been so much minced and consumed in the visits, and calls, and dinners, of friends I sometimes wish I had remained in the calm wilderness all winter.Mr Upham is going with his family to Los Angeles, to be gone a month or more. So it is doubtful where I will settle for the few months before setting out on next seasons work.
Location
920 Valencia St., San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1880 Mar 16
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir04_0073-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0073
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
