Creator
A[lexander] W. Drake
Recipient
John Muir
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[letterhead] New York, Aug 16th 1877.John Muir Esq.. Dear Sir, I have just read your article on “The Humming bird of the California water falls” and am delighted with it. It offers a fine field for illustrations. I write to see if you know of any picture of the bird that has been published and if so if you will please give me the title of the book in which it appeared! Your sketches will be of great use to our article – to work from and if not too much trouble I would like you to make several others of which I send the following [ but?] No 1 One of this bird or birds flying about in the [ spray?][in margin: 00750] 2 [letterhead] 2 Diving in foaming ed[illegible] 3 A view under water of the three Ouzels feeding at bottom of the lake. This will make a novel and striking picture. 4 Ouzels flying under water (this is important.) 5 Ouzel entering a white torrent 5 Ouzel swooping down the incline of cascades. As none of one bird artists here have seen the Ouzel it would be impossible for them to give any idea of how he flies without a sketch to guide them[in margin: 00750]
Location
New York
Date Original
1877 Aug 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir03_0555-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0555
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
