Creator

John Muir

Recipient

C. Hart Merriam

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To Dr. C. Hart MerriamMartinez, Cal. Oct. 23, 1900.My dear Dr. Merriam,I am very glad to get your kind letter bringing back our big little Sierra trip through the midst of so many blessed chipmunks and trees. Many thanks for your care and kindness about the photographs and for the pile of interesting bird and beast Bulletins. No. 3 contains lots of masterly work and might be expanded into a grand book. This you should do, adding and modifying in accordance with the knowledge you have gathered during the last ten years. Bat Alas.9 Here you are pegging and puttering with the concerns of others as if in length of life you expect to rival Sequoia. That stream and fountain article, which like Tennyson's brook threatened to "go on forever," is at last done, and I am now among the Big Tree parks. Not the man with the hoe, but the poor toiler with the pen deserves milt-long commiseration in prose and rhyme.Give my kindest regards to Mrs. and Mr. Bailey and tell them I'll go guide with them to Yosemite whenever they like unless I should happen to be hopelessly tied up in some way.With pleasant recollections from Mrs. Muir and the girlsI am very truly yours,JOHN MUIRCharlie Keeler has got out another nice new book (Poems).[1 North Am.Fauna No. 3 - Result of a Biological Survey of San Francisco Mt. & the Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. By C. Hart Merriam. Sept. 1900.]2 Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park02742

Location

Martinez, Calif.

Date Original

1900 Oct 23

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir11_0401-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 11, Image 0401

Copyright Statement

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

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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