Creator
Bradford Leavitt
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
3as good as Conways or better. Title "The Highest Andes" by Fitzgerald; Scribners. It is recently published. You said you might sometimes come to meetings if you did not have to speak. Now the Unitarian Club is to have a meeting with supper and four or five speakers on the evening of the 30th September. I should deem it a great honor and pleasure if you would come to the city to my house and attend that meeting and I can promise you will not be called upon for an address. You shall have a room overlooking the trees of the Presdidio and the waters of the Gate and the mountains beyond. You shall be to all intents in the country, away from city noises and away from people. You shall come and go as you like and not be bothered by2not mind my saying that there are few writers I have ever come across whose word sing themselves as now and again yours do. How you make us all want to be there with the giants and away from all the [conventionalities?] and the "carpet dust and unknowable reeks." Being myself Boston born and bred I do think you give the old town pretty hard knocks, but no doubt it is partly deserved. Still all Boston people are not old fogies & too [transcendental?] to love the woods. I have just read Conway's book which you had, you remember, at Mr W[illegible]s. It'd fine is it not? You may remember I referred to another mountain book you did not seem to know; it is very interesting; quite
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1901 Sep 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir11_0867-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0867
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
