Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain,Mass,....October...20.,......1899.My dear Muir:I am back after an unsatisfactory journey and I am glad you did not undertake to go with me, for although I saw some magnificently colored foliage at Nashville and Ashville the journey, on the whole, was very unsatisfactory because wherever I have been there had been very severe frosts following a season of unprecedented drought, so really the botany did not amount to very much.I shall have to go over a good deal of the same ground and more of it in the early spring and that will be the time for you to join me and see our eastern vegetation at springtime.You are good for this[ilegible].At the present writing I have only about thirty-six new species of Crataegus but I daresay there are as many more stored away in remote parts of the south and in the north too, for we have found some new ones even in Massachusetts.What are you working on in these days and how are you getting on? I do not at all like the idea of a year passing without our meeting but it looks as if I was not going to see you in '99.I am still bothered over that Juniper of eastern Oregon and I cannot make up my mind whether it is distinct from the high Sierra tree or not.I wish you would go and take a look at it and give me your opinion.Apparently the fruit of the high Sierra tree takes two years in which to02636
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1899-10-20T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_1043-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 1043
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
Page 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
