Creator
J. E. Calkins
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
808 East Tenth Street,Davenport, Iowa.August 23, 1904.My Dear Mr. Muir:-Your charming, and really unexpected, letter, dated at Martinez July 18, reached my home here in due time, but has only just reached me. On the day it was penned I was starting for 5 weeks in the Yellowstone National Park, and the Jackson's Lake Country immediately south of the wonderland, and so missed it. But I hope your modesty will suffer me to say that nothing that I saw, or heard, or did, on all that delightful tour gave me the real pleasure and satisfaction that came to me in one little paragraph of a letter of my good wife's, in which she told me I had awaiting me here at home a wonderful letter from John Muir, etc, etc. I walked about the remainder of that day in a good deal of a trance, I surmise; certainly I felt that way.I must tell you that for years I have found in your work an insight into the natural world, and capacity for telling what you see, and a style and charm in the way of the telling, that are03431
Location
Davenport, Iowa
Date Original
1904-08-23 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 30.5 x 22 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir14_0486-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0486
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
