Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Charles Sprague] Sargent

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Martinez, Feb. 16, 1899.My dear Prof Sargent.I'm going to the city in a day or two & will hunt up tree pictures. I have written to two [skaging?] inhabitants about the birch flowers & hope to get them.[in margin: oaks are now putting forth leaves & flowers. Winter gone & nothing [illegible]]You expect me to make the effort of my life on your book. It bids fair to take all my life What with grippe & a swarm of distracting interruptions I got little done this winter almost nothing. Mrs M. has been laid up with Grippe over two months & is still confined to bed though a little better. I have been writing a good many sheep letters. A disgusting business. You perhaps had better write to the President & the land office. Glad to learn you & family are better.Ever YoursJohn Muir

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1899 Feb 16

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0675-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0675

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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