Creator
J. W. Sterling
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]
too pupils of both sexes. Hoping that you will excuse my past neglect & promising you to do so no more I remain yours most cordially J M Sterling
930
00460
[1] Oct 12, 1868
Madison Wis Oct. 12/68
Dear Friend
I am very much mor- tified that I should have neg- lected to answer your letter. In the great amount of correspondence I have to attend to your letter got mislaid and was forgotten. I can hardly feel that this is a sufficient justification. My duties are almost overwhelming I have this term seven [illegible] teaching a day besides my other numerous duties: Besides I have had considerable sickness in my family. Mrs Sterling has been sick for some time - very dangerously so - but is now getting better and I trust will be about in a short time. The children are well. They don't forget you
[2]
In regard to the matter of which you wrote. I have to say that I have no doubt that you can complete the scientific course in one year as you suggest. I would advise you to get Looms' new work on Astronomy and study, carefully what you can of it. I would recommend also that you read Blair's Rhet- oric Besides Astronomy, one [illegible] a day with me for a term, or [illegible[ [illegible], will enable you to complete the course in mathematics. I think you would be better satisfied, however, to spend two years more here, and study Latin & French: and I have a proposition to make you which will enable you to
[3]
do it with little or no expense It is my purpose to open next Spring or Fall a Family Boarding School for Boys, at my house near the Uni- versity grounds. I am about putting up a building for the purpose. I shall want some student connected with the University to board with me and have some super- vision of the boys out of school hours and perform some other service which will interfere hardly at all with his own studies Now I know of no one whom I would prefer for the place to yourself. Would it suit you? Let me hear from you on this point soon. We have this term nearly
Location
Madison, Wis[c]
Date Original
1868 Oct 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26.0 cm
Recommended Citation
Sterling, J. W., "Letter from J. W. Sterling to John Muir, 1868 Oct 12" (1868). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1283.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1283
Resource Identifier
muir01_1262-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 01, Image 1262
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
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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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
