Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Frank] Bond
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Transcription
[Rough draft of letter]Jan. 15, 1907.Dear Mr. Bond:I thank you for the information contained in your letter of Dec. 28th last.I don't see how I will be able to describe the boundaries[of the] Pet[rified] forest N[orth] of Adamana by sections even on the Santa Fe Co.'s map, without going over the ground with a surveyor. But after camping 17 days in the N. forest and carefully examining it I am sure that all of it excepting only a few scattered outlying trunks may be comprehended in an area of 2/3 of one township, while the three small patches strewn with trees interesting to the palaeontologist on the W. side of the basin of dead pines (?) cover only about 2 l/2 or 2 sq. m[ile]s, or about 22 sections in all, as shown in the above sketch map.Rejoicing in hope of the effective preservation of these magnificent monuments of the most ancient? forests,[John Muir] [Attached is "Sketch Map of Petrified Forests near Adamana"]03819
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1907-01-15 00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 19.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir16_0563-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0563
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
