Creator
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Recipient
John Muir
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[3]have been possessed of the beauty you ascribe to your Arctic Daisy. It is such a small flower - the rays only 3 or 4 lines long - and white. The waiters at Deer Park Inn this last August assured us ours was the Arctic Daisy - and one of them has travelled up and down the mountains from Alaska southward, a long range, and says he has found it all up and down - Now, dear Mr. Muir, I do not wish to dispute your letter in any way, I only wish to be very sure of my ground before printing the name in print. This lovely flower of ours grew on a stem (usually only one head on a stem) a foot to twenty inches high. - We found it starring those high plushy, green meadows - 7000 to 8000 ft above the sea. I enclose a piece of paper with characters of both
Location
San Rafael, [Calif.]
Date Original
[ca. 1900] Nov 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 24.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir11_0451-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0451
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
