Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Joseph Hooker
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Transcription
920 Valencia St San Francisco Feb 1st 1879 Sir Joseph Hooker. Dear Sir, I was delighted the other day on receiving your paper on the distribution of the North American flora. It came while I was away in the Great Basin, so that I received it only a few days ago. The explanation you present of the rarity of East Asiatic types in America, west of the prairie region, is most interesting and I would like to offer you here a few facts bearing upon the question, gleaned in the Great Basin between the Sierra Nevada and the Wasatch mountains during the last three years. Last summer I travelled over 2,800 miles on horseback crossing the Basin
Location
San Francisco [Calif.]
Date Original
1879 Feb 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 11 x 18
Resource Identifier
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Directors' Correspondence 199/312-317
File Identifier
muir03_0985-ad-1
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Documents reproduced with the kind permission of the Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
DC 199 ff 312 317 image 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
