Recipient
Wolfe, Linnie Marsh
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I My acquaintance with John Mttir was an episode that I have been constrained to think revealed a phase of his psychological organization that was little known, even by his nearest friends, but that was, possibly, a major characteristic of his rmsgmsaAmmiiaismi makeup. It really began with the pleadings of my mother that /MS writings, then occasionally appearing in the better magazines, be sought out and read by me* Every letter I had from her reiterated these persuasions, but I was busy, and none of Mr» Muir's work happened to fall across my path, till one day I caught his name, in connection with a short story, as I was glancing over a copy of the Century Magazine. Thinking to merely this tale o.j^j(||W^a!WWW8Stefere I was presently so gripped by it that I could not lay it down till I had finished it— "A Story of A Man, A Dog, and A Glacier." With that reading, I found, I had also finished with all indifferent neglect of John Muir and his writings. From that day on I read, with an eager and growing appetite, everything of his work ib/f_ that I could lay hand on. I had an actual hunger anything and all that he had written, or that he might write* and presently, along with that zest, another developed; I wanted to meet and know the man who could frame mere dead dry words into such vital glowing phrases, and before 09/^r
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unknown
Circa Date
[1941-1945]
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1
Resource Identifier
MSS048 Vb.7
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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.
Keywords
John Muir, biography, reminiscence, colleagues, contemporaries, archives, special collections, University of the Pacific, California, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, history, naturalist
