Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Jamaica plain, mass, june 27, 1898.My dear Muir:I have your note of the 21st telling me that you are sending another lot of Abies flowers. I am glad to get them as every tree sharp in the world who deserves such specimens will be glad of a share, as these flowers do not exist in any herbarium in this country or Europe.I do not very well see how Canby could refuse to be of our party if he wants to after the handsome compliments which you write about him and which I am sending on to cheer him in his old age.Of course Pinchot does not want military protectors in the forest. He is paid to [illegible] up political guardians and he is going to do it. I suppose you know that he has been appointed to and accepted the position of Chief of Forestry of the Agricultural Department. This is a good place for him. He can do no harm there and after a very short time people will cease to pay any attention to what he says. I should judge he had got pretty nearly to the end of his term.At any rate the men who know him and his ideas as well as we do have no confidence either in his motives or intelligence—-but why waste time and words on such a subject When there are trees to think and write about?Just now I am deep in Picea, leaving Abies for the end of this volume, which is already about two-thirds written and will, I02438
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1898-06-27T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0233-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0233
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
