Creator

Harold Howard

Recipient

John Muir

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Newburgh, N.Y.,Feb. 7/08.My dear Mr. Muir: -I stepped into the library - before going skating this afternoon - to read the article in the February North american Review - and just as I was about through reading it Mr. Bailey Millard's article in the Bookman came to my notice.-I am writing to you as a result of reading Mr, Millard's article - It is a "happenstance" (one of so very many that occur to those who are mentally alive - at any rate), that Mr. Millard's article was reprinted in the Sep. 1906 number of a (10¢) Chicago magazine - in which I had a "letter" - the first attempt I have ever made at writing (outside of a humorous college journal of which I was an editor - and a school paper) my somewhat novel views of politics and religion (those tabooed subjects of conversation - which04059

Location

Newburgh, N. Y.

Date Original

1908 Feb 6

Source

Original letter dimensions: 25.5 x 20 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir17_0163-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 17, Image 0163

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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

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