Creator
Katharine Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2]join his family.I have been in Santa Barbara and now am in San Francisco for a week, but return to Los Angeles in two days. [illegible] and Lucy leave for Yosemite tomorrow taking "The Mountains of California" with them, as usual when they go to the Sierras.I have a book from you--at least so the printed slip in the volume tells me. But I opened to a bare, blank fly leaf, with no heart-warming inscription upon it in you handwriting. Can this be? I don't see how it is to be let remain so! It is a fair volume,[3]2well gotten up and illustrated; but that cold and chilling print that tells me (along with so many other receivers, no doubt) that is is mine, and from the author--no, I don't think I can endure it.Are you well? Are you working too hard, I wonder? But, still worse, are you melting away into a barbarous and unknown land, almost as distant in my imagination as another planet? I don't like to think of it.You wish peace to me. I think it is coming to me--by degrees. I appear gradually05074
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
[1911] Jul 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0522-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0522
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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
