Creator
Mary Frances Kellogg
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
R.F.D. 289C, Pasadena,Dec. 23rd, 1911.Dear Mr. Muir:With this holiday greeting, I should like to explain to you what I afterward felt was an ungracious acknowledgment of your suggestion that I be one of several Sierra Club members to accompany your party to South America. That such a trip with you would have been the rarest treat of my life, I perhaps too readily assumed that you would understand. My unresponsive attitude was due to the fact that the trip was absolutely out of my reach because of financial inability. A silly pride instinctively prevented my telling you so at the time-- But courtesy and appreciation demanded a frankness, which, though so late, I am now sending you.I will send this to Martinez, though not sure you are yet back from your trip. In gratitude for your kindness.
Location
Pasadena [Calif.]
Date Original
1911 Dec 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 19 x 29.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir20_0751-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0751
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
