Creator

Mark B. Kerr

Recipient

John Muir

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[letterhead]San Francisco, November 16. 1891My dear Prof Muir,Your letter of 12th reached me to=day.- I feel sure that I can organize the Expedition and arrange everything so as to be satisfactory to you for as the Scientist of the Expedition you will be entirely independent of my movements as Astronomer & Executive Officer As soon as matters are in a more definite shape I will confer with you and we can together formulate [a plan?] of action which I think will be successful.- Russell made the same mistake the year just past, as we did the year previous.- and profiting by his experience, we can establish a camp on East face of Elias, at our old camp “Dome pass”.- . Then you and I can make the rush for the back=

Location

San Francisco, [Calif]

Date Original

1891 Nov 16

Source

Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir07_0357-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 07, Image 0357

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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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