Creator
Walter H. Page
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[Page 1] Dear Mr. Muir, I thank you very heartily for your telegram that has just been received, and I wait with eagerness for your letter. At the risk of making myself a nuisance I was on the point of writing to you an additional experience that I have had which I cannot help thinking will interest you. Mr. John Burroughs has been spending a little while with me, and he talks about nothing else so earnestly as about you and your work. He declares in the most emphatic fashion that it will be a misfortune too great to estimate if you do not write up all those bags of notes which you have gathered. He encourages me, to put it in his own words, to “keep firing at him, keep firing at him.” Now when I have on my side two such allies as Professor Sargent and Mr. Burroughs, you will have to make your fortifications very
Location
Boston
Date Original
1897 Oct 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
1897 Oct 15 Walter Page to JM
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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
1897 Oct 15 Walter Page to JM p1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
