Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
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2the flowers. While Miss Eastwood starts this evening for the Sierra summit above Truckee & I have a friend in Yosemite watching the trees around the rim of the valley, so we can hardly fail to get good flrs even in so bad a year as this.I have got through the first reading of your pine volume. It is bravely sturdily handsomely done. Grand old ponderosa you have set forth in magnificent style describing its many forms & allowing species makers to name as many as they like. While showing their inseparable characters. But you should have mentioned the thick scaly uninflammable bark with which like a wandering warrior of King Arthurs time it is clad, as accounting in great part for its wide distribution & endurance of extremes of climate. You seem to rank it above the Sugar Pine, But in youth & age clothed with beauty & majesty Lambertiana is easily King of all the worldwide realm of pines while ponderosa is the noble unconquerable mailed knight without fear and without reproach.
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1898 Jun 7
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0187-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0187
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html )
Owning Institution
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Archives, Boston, Massachusetts. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
