Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Prof and Mrs Phelps

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Dear Prof + Mrs. Phelps Many thanks for the photographs. I shall always look back with great pleasure to the memorable days pair of you glad days under your care so full of glad loyalty and to my visit in your beautiful bookful loveful home in Yale enthusiasm succeed to filled all your town influencing everybody and everything like climate. Never before have I seen or felt anything just like it. The glowing of the alumni overflowing all friends was especially exhilarating and telling. Surely nothing even in the golden coronation glory over the [ ] could surpass it. No wonder I’m proud of the honor Yale honors I got; I am enjoying the glow I’m now hiding in, etc before leaving for 24 or a new academic religion.

Location

[place unknown]

Date Original

[ca. 1911]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 17 x 14 cm.

Resource Identifier

1911 undated JM to Prof and Mrs Phelps

File Identifier

MSS 048 John Muir Papers

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Page Number

1911 undated JM to Prof and Mrs Phelps p1

Keywords

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

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