Creator
James D[avie] Butler
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
I hear you never saw Shaw’s garden in St. Louis. He gave the city more than 5 millions and 40 years of work.- It is will ordains an annual Banquet to cost $1000.[illegible] As I knew him more familiarly than most I am to speak May 19 on a toast to his memory. – My hope is to have a genial time. Yet my purpose was on first getting home never more to emerge from my hermitage. Still ["een?] in the ashes live the wonted fires” – who knows what I may do? If I ever travel again I will see more of California. – and were out my welcome with you. Nothing south of New Almaden have I seen. – Two years ago I would have lingered there but could not have believed I had started to gridle the globe till the Pacific rolled behind me.- Why dont you come and see us? Tell me of your house hold – Where will you be through the summer? No dweller on my street has dwelt here so long as I – but I try to keep in touch with the new comers.-with the young and hopeful I would feel so too. Yrs James D. Butler.01571
Location
Madison [Wisc.]
Date Original
1892 Apr 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir07_0521-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0521
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
