Creator

C[harles] S[prague] Sargent

Recipient

John Muir

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ARNOLD ARBORETUM,HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain Mass,..........September..13,...1901.My dear Muir:What in the world has become of you? Have you disappeared in the ruins of the Muir glacier or dried up and blown away like one of your beloved alpine Junipers? The last time I heard from you was in the early spring when you said you were going to join Canby and me before we got home from the south. The habit of quitting seems to be growing on you badly.I have been hard at work all summer and have not been away but for one day since May.Now I am starting off for a three or four weeks' trip about the Great Lakes, etc., hunting for Crataegus.Canby,unfortunately, won't be with me for he went to Europe six weeks ago with his son who is out of health and won't be back until about the first of October.Our old friend Dr. Mohr has died, as you have perhaps seen. You have also perhaps seen in the September number of The World's Work how I look when I have just escaped from an inebriate asylum.This is not intended for a friendly letter, however, for such a quitter really deserves nothing at my hands, but to tell you that my youngest daughter with her aunt Mrs. Thayer is going to California to attend the Episcopal Convention in San Francisco.She will be at the Palace Hotel about the first of October I suppose.If you happen to[02893]

Location

Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Date Original

1901 Sep 13

Source

Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir11_0861-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 11, Image 0861

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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 1

Keywords

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

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