Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Joseph Hooker
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I have two daughters, Wanda and Helen, twenty one and fifteen years of age. I took them to the high Sierra last summer, they are capital walkers and able for travels of any sort. The eldest is a student at the State university. I'm glad your son came safely through that dismal Boer War. Joe will no doubt be a good surgeon. I remember him well talking very seriously about the profession while yet a mere child. I shall not forget the diamonds on the cones of the Sugar Pines next time I write about those grand trees. The action of sandblasts on dwarf pines and junipers I have often noted and hope to call attention to it sometime in connection with other tree studies. In view of the threatened extinction of Sequoia in the Sierra it is comforting to know that it is growing well and is widely distributed in the parks and gardens of Europe. Congratulating you on the completion of your great work on the Flora of India and wishing you many more happy years, I am, with best compliments to Lady Hooker, very sincerely yours, John Muir.
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1902 Apr 20
Resource Identifier
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. JD Hooker MUE-PIT
File Identifier
muir12_0373-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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
JDH.2.16 f 36
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
