Creator
[Asa Gray]
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
restrain evaporation, & so dried too much. I should have had oiled paper or oiled cloth to wrap them in. But I find the best and most avail= able thing to send live plants in by post is [underline: Segar-boxes], and the [transcript says "plants" - don't look like plants to me] packed [underline: snugly] in hardly damp moss. - [underline: peat moss (Sphagnum) by all means, if that is to be had. I should think it grew in the valley. The season for safe sending is at hand, and I will begin next sheet with a list of some of the things I am longing for, at the rate of a segar box full of each. Botanic Garden - Cambridge, Mass. Sept. 11, '72My Dear Muir Your welcome letter of the 24th Aug. reached Cambridge before I did and I respond to it among the earliest. How you must have enjoyed Torrey, and what a surprise it must have been! And to us too, to know that he was at Salt Lake City, and almost on his way to Ogden when we were there going East. We (wife & I) had to the last a happy, successful, and instructive journey. - except that the driver upset us on the way to Calaveras - at Jamestown, & sprained Mrs Gray's shoulder. But it is all well now. We made no long excursions after our return to San Francisco.
Location
Cambridge, Mass Botanic Garden
Date Original
1872 Sep 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir02_0897-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 0897
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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.
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
