Creator
John Burroughs
Recipient
John Muir
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West Park, N.Y.,Dec. 28, [1909?].Dear John Muir:I have been under the weather for two or three weeks, both head and gizzard wrong, principally the gizzard, but I am better today and must sit up to my table to thank you for your last letters. You are a dear anyway, Scotch obstinacy and all, and I love you, though at times I want to punch you or thrash the ground with you. But I have my laugh at your expense — when you are not around. The other day I said to a friend, "Muir will not agree with you about anything. If you were to say, 'Now, Muir, two and two make four anyway,’ Muir would reply, 'Well, three and two make five, but what of that, Johnny." My friend replied, "That is the Scotch of it. "Well, it is all right — I love the Scotchman too, and I will forgive him all his quips and Jibes and fun at my expense if he will come here next year and help me study the geology of my native Catskills and of the Shawangunk grits at Mohonk.I hope to be well in a few days. We have snow and rugged winter here. Remember me to Keith when you see him, and to Keeler.Affectionately,John Burroughs.04920
Location
West Park, N.Y.
Date Original
[1910 ?] Dec 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir19_1024-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 1024
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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
