Creator
Hamlin Garland et. al.
Recipient
[John Muir]
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Transcription
National Institute of Acts and letters To the Members of the National Institute of Arts and Letters:The train for Chicago will leave New York City by the Pennsylvania Railroad at 5.04 p.m. on Wednesday, November 12, from the Pennsylvania Station, 33d Street and Seventh Avenue. Please inquire for the two sleeping cars reserved for the National Institute of Arts and Letters. Berths are provided by the hospitality of the Cliff Dwellers. Members accompanied by their wives will please go on board the reserved compartment sleeping car. Members pay their own fares, and will please remember not to buy tickets but to pay on the train. Those who desire to check baggage will please inquire for Mr. Wallace of the Pennsylvania Railroad at the information bureau at least half an hour before the train starts. The fare from New York to Chicago on the 5.04 train is $24.15. The Railroad Company makes no reduction for round trip ticket. Members are requested to come in good season. There will be a special dining-car on the train. Information concerning clubs and hotels at Chicago for members to go to will be given on board the train.Members from Philadelphia will take the train at North Philadelphia at 7.02 p. m.It is expected that the following members will constitute the party on board the train: Messrs. Karl Bitter, F. E. Chadwick (and Mrs. Chadwick), G. W. Chadwick (and Mrs. Chadwick), Wm. M. Chase (and Mrs. Chase), F. S. Converse, W. L. Cross, Frank Miles Day, Reginald De Koven, Arthur Foote, Ben Foster, D. C. French, William Gillette, Clayton Hamilton, Birge Harrison, Thomas Hastings, Ripley Hitchcock, Wm. H. Howe, Samuel Isham, Albert Jaegers, Owen Johnson, R.U. Johnson, John L. Long, T. R. Lounsbury, W. H. Low, H. W. Mabie, Percy Mackaye, H. A. MacNeil (and Mrs. MacNeil), Brander Matthews, J. B. McMaster, Harrison S. Morris, Leonard Ochtman, W. L Phelps, A. S. Pier, Bela L. Pratt (and Mrs. Pratt), E. W. Redfield, J. F. Rhodes, H. D. Sedgwick, Wm. M. Sloane, W. T. Smedley, Augustus Thomas, H.O. Walker, F.H. Williams, and that the following members, in addition, will be present at Chicago: Messrs. L. Betts, Madison Cawein, H.C. Chatfield Taylor, Ralph Clarkson, S. M. Crothers, O. W Firkins, Hamlin Garland, Wm. E. Griffis, Robert Herrick, Edgar S. Kelley, R. M. Lovett, Wm. R. Mead, Meredith Nicholson, Wm. M. Payne, I. K. Pond, F. A. Stock, Lorado Taft, Wm. A. White.Your committee earnestly hopes that other members may still find it possible to come. In case of any change of intention as to going please at once notify the Secretary, H. D. Sedgwick, 120 East 22d Street, New York.HAMLIN GARLANDROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSONBRANDER MATTHEWSHENRY D. SEDGWICKJESSE LYNCH WILLIAMSProgram CommitteeDated New York, November 6th, 1913,0560465
Location
New York
Date Original
1913 Nov 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir21_0966-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0966
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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Page Number
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
