Creator
Harry Fielding Reid
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]
Atlantic City, N.Y. Sept 17 1891
My dear Prof. Muir,
I am delighted you liked the photographs I sent you. I hope you will accept them as a mark of my friendship. How I should have enjoyed scrambling with you among the Sierras! We have spend the summer in the Adirondack Wilderness, west of the mountains
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[2]
We went their for the health of Mrs Reid’s mother. it rained five days out often; and I concluded that one should go to Alaska if they want dry weather. I had an interesting letter from Miss [Scidmore?] a few days ago. I suppose you also have heard of the visit she and some friends made to our old camp. I was surprised that they found things in such good order. I shall be so interested
[3]
[letterhead]
in your article on the Glacier. My own work has not yet gone to press, but I hope it will very soon. Did I write you that the fastest motion of the ice that I found was 7 feet a day? The size of the instruments, their distance from the flags, etc. make it possible, tho’ not probable that this may be in error by two feet. The ice in
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Granite Canon puzzles me, and you are the only one who can set me straight. Does the ice slope down & terminate in the canon, or does it slope up & join the tributary glaciers on the mountain sides? I think the former is true; at any rate I am satisfied that the upper part of the canon is closed up & that the drainage is back under the ice into Muir Inlet. Cushing has gone to Germany to study for a year or more. The other “chimney-[illegible]"
[5]
[letterhead]
are at work in or near Cleveland, where I myself return in a day or two. Mrs Reid joins me in kind regards & I am very sincerely yours
Harry Fielding Reid.
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Location
Atlantic City, N. J.
Date Original
1891 Sep 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 13.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Reid, Harry Fielding, "Letter from Harry Fielding Reid to John Muir, 1891 Sep 17." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 110.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/110
Resource Identifier
muir07_0295-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0295
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
