Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Theodore P.] Lukens
Transcription
thanking me for about 200 more Photographs of my taking
Martinez Nov. 12, 1897
My dear Lukens.
I thank you for the magnificent set of photographs which arrived the other day. The Canon set brings back the glorious days I spent there last year The one with the white cloud is particularly telling. The Flagstaff one has a fine view of the wonderful San Francisco Mtns & the limestone ledges with the Cavedwellers huts are fine & interesting pictures.
Eaton Canon is a fine picture & recalls my visit 20 yrs ago. Then the rocks were lined with moss & ferns, Now I see they are bare.
The Buck Horn Canon picture is one of the most charming flowery ferny forest scenes I ever saw. it must be engraved some day The specimen you have marked "Monticola"
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is sugar pine. I saw thousands of them along the ridge between Bear Valley & Squirrel Inn. The cones are so much smaller & in such rich clusters as compared with those of the Sierra it looks somewhat like Monticola. You do not mention the pinus Coulteri. I lots of it near the upper limit of the tuberculata above San Bernardino. The cones of the Coulter are the heaviest & grandest in appearance of all the cones in the world.
I dont know when our winter meeting is to be. But I'll not fail to call attention to the oversight of the Secretary to which you refer. Also to club excursions & arrangments for hotel accomodation
Im pegging away at an article on the Yellowstone. Then will come the other parks. The pictures of your home Christmas time are very telling. Thanking you again & hoping to see you here ere long with love to Lottie & kind regards to all
I am Yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif.]
Date Original
1897 Nov 12
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Nov 12." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2027.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2027
Resource Identifier
muir09_1132-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1132
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
