Creator
Annie K. Bidwell
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]said that he would write Dr Jordan, and see Mr Pinchot about naming the new Forest Reserve including Lassen Butte, for General. The San Francisco Call of Apr. 12 had a very fine editorial advocating that there be a National Park named for General Bidwell. [Your?] friends sent me clippings from this Call, and when I showed Dr Benjamin the article in insisted that the Park and statue should both be secured. Mr Garver[3]is the gentleman who spoke so eloquently for General at the Washington "California Association" and set the thought in motion at the Society, that General's claims were equal if not superior to any other. He claimed "far superior." Mr Garver urged me to ask you to write Pres. Roosevelt just such a letter as you wrote Dr Benjamin, about General, asking him to name a Park for General and that the President's
Location
Washington, D.C.
Date Original
1905-05-15 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 13.5 x 27 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir15_0446-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0446
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
