Creator
A[sa] Gray
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
My Dear Mr. Muir BOTANIC GARDEN, CAMBRIDGE, MASS. April 9 1873Thanks for your letter of Feb. 22 - 26, which arrived yesterday. And I have already nearly finished my report on your precious specimens. As you did not number them I have to [underline: locate] them, by putting the names on your slips that enclosed them. - sometimes too returning the specimen, or a part of it. So that you will identify them, I think. I grieve that I can't go to California again this summer. Time & means are wanting. So I must stay at home, & work on Calif. Botany instead. If you will keep botanizing on the high Sierras, you will find curious & new things, no doubt, One such, at least, is in your present collection in letter - the we mouse-tail [underlined: Ivesia] - -
And the rare [s'?] sp. of [underlined: Lewisia] is as good as [deleted: illegible] [underlined: new] - and is so wholly to California. I wonder if you get roots of [underlined: Whitneya dealbata] as soon as the snow has gone from them, you could not get them alive to me - to grow. It grows near Sentinel Dome, I believe. I gathered it on [underlined: Wawona] point above the Mariposa grove. Spring is unusually tardy here. To-day it is as chilly as - - - - as San Francisco in July! You will grieve with us over the death of dear good old Torrey. Gone to his rest in a good old age - but we miss him sadly.
Ivesia Muirii is the first fruit. "the day of small things". Get a new alpine genus - that I may make a [underlined: Muiria glacialis!]
Ever Yours A. Gray
Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass.
April 9, 1873.
My dear Mr. Muir:
Thanks for your letter of Feb. 22 - 26 which arrived yesterday. And I have already nearly finished my report on your precious specimens. As you did not number them I have to locate them by putting the names on your slips that enclosed them, sometimes, too, returning the specimen, or a part of it. So that you will identify them, I think.
I grieve that I can't go to California again this summer. Time and means are wanting, so I must stay at home and work on Calif. Botany instead. If you will keep botanizing in the high Sierras you will find curious and new things, no doubt. One such, at least, is in your present collection in letter - the wee mouse-tail Ivesia. And the rare sp. of Lewisia. is as good as new, and is so wholly to California.
I wonder if you get roots of Whitneya dealbata as soon as the snow has gone from them, you could not get them alive to me - to grow? It grows near Sentinel Dome, I believe. I gathered it on Wawona point above the Mariposa grove.
Spring is unusually tardy here. To-day it is as chilly as -- as San Francisco in July!
You will grieve with us over the death of dear good old Torrey. Gone to his rest in a good old age, but we miss him sadly. Ivesia Muirii is the first fruit "the day of small things." Get a new alpine genus - that 1 may make a Muiria glacialis!
Ever yours,
A. Gray.
Location
Botanic Garden, Cambridge, Mass
Date Original
1873 Apr 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Gray, Asa, "Letter from A[sa] Gray to John Muir, 1873 Apr 9." (1873). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1522.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1522
Resource Identifier
muir02_1109-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 02, Image 1109
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
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Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
