Creator

W. Otto Emerson

Recipient

John Muir

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Birds etc 81surounded by snow robed peaks, who are the last, to be kiss't asleep by the sun's lowering rays. I will have to put up with what others say in pictured words of their grandure and allows the mind to build them into form and color. Mr Muir, if you could ever fine any spare time, while in Oakland at any time to spare a run, out to Haywards by the Electric Cars, we are only four blocks from them at Bridge St. Remember the latch string - will always hang on the outside for you. I am living here, with an only dear old Mother and should be glad to show you a few birds or sketches and studies, done in many moods of natures color and shadows. I mail you a copy of the first No I of the "Cooper Ornithological Club. with a sketch of Dr. J G Cooper's life, one of the first ornithologists of the west coast. No doubt you have often meet him at the Academy of Sciences. in S.F. Thanking you a thousand times, for the peasure of your book of mountain scene's.yours trulyW. Otto Emerson

Location

Haywards. Calif.

Date Original

1901 Apr 30

Source

Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir11_0705-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 11, Image 0705

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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 2

Keywords

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

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