Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell

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920 Valencia St. San Francisco, May 3 1879.Dear Mrs Bidwell. Your bonnie telling bunch of bloom is here, & how gladly I would seek the fields where it came you must know, But alack!! work, work, work, holds me here. How beautiful the fields, & plains, & fence corners, about Chico must be. I have been hoping all through the winter that I should be with you in bloom-time for at least a week. Now summer is coming on, & my chances to see Chico this year seem to be growing less. I may probably go into the Sierra above Yosemite for month, & then up the Coast to study the glacial phenomena The Sunday School people from the east want me to lecture for them; but this is a business that I know little about. Am hard at work with my pen. Have not had a single excursion this winter. How have your flora studies prospered? With thanks for the bloom, I am cordially yrs, John Muir

Location

920 Valencia St. San Francisco, [Calif]

Date Original

1879 May 3

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir03_1050-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 03, Image 1050

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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