Creator

Mabel Colf

Recipient

John Muir

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[2]just laid out. There are many fine residences being built. In the midst of this fine neighbor-hood our school is situated. There are four rooms, the office, and three other little rooms. I am in the A5's. There are about twenty-eight pupils in this room.Thursday after-noon we had our exercises. I think we did finely. We had bought a new flag and while it was going up [3]we sang "The Star Spangled Banner." We also planted a redwood tree, and many flowers. We dedicated our tree to you and presented our flag to Mr. Charles Monroe of the Board of Education. Much of our program was from writings of yours. One of our teachers read the biography of yourself. In it I found out that you had lived in Fox lake Wisconsin. I have an aunt, uncle, and cousin there and I thought you might

Location

Los Angeles, Calif.

Date Original

circa [19]04 Mar 22

Source

Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir14_0092-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 14, Image 0092

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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 2

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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