Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain, Mass, December 16, 1899.My dear Muir:How are you getting along? Better, I hope, than we are in this part of the world. I have had a horrid attack of bronchitis which kept me in the house for ten days and which is still troublesome but better, and my oldest daughter on her return from Europe was taken with typhoid fever, fortunately not a bad case. She is better but not sitting up yet.Crataegus still bothers me and seems a hopeless task. I do not think I shall ever finish it.I have at last received specimens from Oregon which satisfy [illegible] that the fruit of Hooker's Juniperus occidentalis requires two years in which to ripen.It is possible, therefore, that the species of the high Sierra is the same as that of the plains of eastern Oregon. The specimens, however, look somewhat different but I find no way of satisfactorily separating them. Some one who knows about Junipers ought to see these trees growing. Any chance of your getting to Oregon this winter or in the early spring, or on your way east?We can meet either in St. Louis or San Antonio as you may prefer. Canby and I are both counting on your company.With kind regards to your family and the compliments of the season.Faithfully yours,John Muir,Esq.C. S. Sargent02647
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1899-12-16T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_1097-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 1097
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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
