Creator
Cha[rle]s F. Lummis
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
Los Angeles. Cal. April 25th 1903.Dear John Muir:I hope the "Glaciers" have by this time made their way to the encyclopedic sea, and broken off and drifted away, leaving you footloose. I have just this morning mailed my article on California to the same office--and it has made me hump this week to put so much California into so small a pinhole as ten thousand words.I am mighty glad you are going to the Yosemite with the President, part of my consolation being that he can't lose_you as easily as he did Brother Burroughs in the Yellowstone. Only look out that you bar horses. A challenged party has the right of[03224]#2- Muir-weapons and don't you let "Teddy" get you to busting broncos with him. Just keep him afoot and guessing. This is really a moral obligation on you for the honor of the West. I want him to find that even the Jeremiahs out here can stay with him all day. I wish I could be a fly on a redwood stump, while the procession goes by. I am going over to the Grand Canon about the 2nd and see if we can pull it up a little nearer the surface so that he can explore the whole business in nine hours besides shaking hands with the whole population of Arizona. I hear that numerous suspicious looking boxes, whose contents are not necessarily for publication but as a guarantee of good faith, are being sent to the Grand Canon Hotel in my name to be presented to the President; but I am forming a dark plan to upon those boxes just before he gets there, and encourage the assembled population of Arizona to take his health so heartily that [03224]
Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
1903 Apr 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir13_0454-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0454
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
