Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
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Transcription
1419 [illegible] St. San Francisco, Cal [ Feb. 1st, 1878?]My dear Mrs Bidwell I was delighted with your fine long sparkling letter of Jan’ 21, which reached me just after posting a short note to you. Your account of your scientific [ discussions?] with Gunning is very amusing & I could not help being pleased to know that he had caught a truth-loving Tartar, the only kind of which such so- called scientists are afraid. You ask my opinion of this gentleman. I know very little about him nor will I be likely to know much more, because I fear he belongs to a clan of “Profs” who are animated less by love of truth than by a vulgar appetite for notricty & money. The word “humbug” is very telling in descriptions of such characters, though I am loath to apply so perfectly damming a term to anyone not well known to me. Still I have seen reports of some of his lectures, & have looked through a book that he wrote some years ago so that I can hardly be mistaken in his size & genus. On the contrary my friends Prof Norton of San Jose & John Swett who have met him & heard his lectures were pleased with him, although the latter confessed that in a portion of one of his lectures he had tried to humbing the people. He met another friend of mine lately on the Sacramento coast, & sent me word that there was no one in California he was so anxious to meet as myself.
Location
1419 Taylor St., San Francisco
Date Original
1878 Feb 1
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0688-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0688
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
