Creator
M. S. Griswold
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[letterhead]#2.I had been out, I think on a Saturday, on a Botanical ramble around M[uil?] Lake, gathering some new specimens of plants for my herbarium. The next morning I r[ested?] myself on the steps of our Dormitory to analyze them and put them into the Press, and while so engaged you came along and looked on with considerable interest, and finally said you didn't see how I so readily [illegible] the species and names of the plants I had. I picked up a new specimen and said, 'sit down a few minutes, Muir, and I will take this plant and explain it to you.' Then I began, calling attention to the leading features of the plant and flower, and referring to the tables and gradually tracing the plant from one subdivision to another until I had fixed the Order, and then turning to the Order from the table there [illegible] getting the genus and species. When I had thus traced the plant to its name, you exclaimed,'That's wonderful, perfectly wonderful, Griswold; I must get me a Botany right off!' And you did get one, almost immediately, and after that we had many a cheery Botanical ramble together often tramping about the wooded shores of the Lakes.02819
Location
Waukesha, Wisc.
Date Original
[ca. 1900]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir11_0527-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0527
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
