Creator
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Recipient
John Muir
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431 - 61st St Oakland Cal.Mar 29. - 1903.Prof. John MuirMartinez, Cal.Dear Sir,It occured to me that you might give me some light regarding how the ground at [illegible] Alaska beacme frozen to a depth of 100 feet and more.Professor J G. [illegible]on my good neighbor urged me to write to you regarding this (to me) strange f[illegible]Two years ago in Dec. and Jan. I sank a shaft on Dry Creek, about one mile from the sea nearly 100 ft. deep all in frozen ground. am quite sure the bottom is below the sea level, at times the deposit was sedimentary and again [it?] was slide some s[illegible]attas were nearly pure ice. On the thirty foot level I afterward drifted03200
Location
Oakland, Calif.
Date Original
1903 Mar 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0352-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0352
Copyright Status
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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
