Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Harry Fielding] Reid
Transcription
(Original in possession of Prof. Harry Fielding Reid)
Martinez, Oct. 20, 1891.
My dear Prof. Reid:
Yours from Atlantic City came a week or two ago. I am very truly obliged to you for the fine set of pictures so suggestive of the good icy days in Glacier Bay, and I hope you will let me know how I can repay your kindness now or at any time. I saw Captain Carroll in San Francisco a few days ago and brought him up sharply hard a starboard and made him give up all his icy news. He says that the ice is jambed in the bay still more closely than last year and that the Muir Glacier has receded a hundred feet or more since we were there. Can you give me or Cap. Carroll your bearings so as to determine the rate of recession approximately from year to year. I looked over my notes carefully after returning home and found that the ground we were encamped on was covered with ice and that the stream near camp had no free existence 12years ago. My camp was on the moraine near those old stumps in the vicinity of one of your stations ; across the camp stream half a mile from our last summer's camp - which then was as near the ice as I could possibly find dry ground.
The ice in Granite Canyon and also in two other canyons to the S.E.ward pitches down just as it does toward the big lake and wolf Valley and all the moraines which now seem lost are stationary — indicating that formerly during a period of greater glacial abundance the ice flowed towards Glacier Bay, though in the case of the big Wolf Valley where I had my adventure with your crazy cook the water drainage is the other way. This will account for the moraines now stretching from Glacier Bay to Wolf Lake and the other smaller lakes over the wasting portion of the main glacier.
My Sierra article will be out in the September Century. I am anxious to see your report. Remember me to Mrs. Reid and all the chimney builders.
Ever yours,
JOHN MUIR
(Envelope addressed to Professor Harry Fielding Reid, Case School ofApplied Science, Cleveland, Ohio.)
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1891 Oct 20
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Harry Fielding] Reid, 1891 Oct 20." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 116.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/116
Resource Identifier
muir07_0331-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0331
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
