Creator
Henry F. Osborn
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
[maga-]zine. I shall look forward to the others. No, my book is not as Big as the 'Silva'-but it is big enough! I never have it off my mind for a moment day or night.
My wife leans over my shoulder to say 'Give him my love'. Your invitation to the Yosemite will not be forgotten. therefore - always
Faithfully your firend
Henry F. Osborn
[1]
November 18th 1897
[letterhead]
My dear Prof. Muir,
We were very happy to hear from you again, in such a long delightful letter. and learn of your Alaskan journey. The Osborns and chickarees are all blooming--staving off as late as possible the return to New York and clinging to the country until Thanksgiving is over. We have you and your glacier always before us in the explorer's corner of my library-panels, under Humboldt. And the mem-
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[2]
on the Laramie plains. I visited four of our bone hunting camps. With great success. My wife and I took the tour of Detroit and Toronto for the American and British Associations in the latter part of August, met many people and enjoyed it greatly.
I am glad you saw the [cape?] article. I especially enjoyed your Atlantic 'forest' article which is grand. It ought to be distributed as a campaign document by the hundred thousand. Too few people outside of the 'Hub' see the Atlantic although it is an admirable mag-
[3]
[mem-]ory of our sunlit trip is as fresh as yesterday. I sent a large party of my students to Sitka this summer. and as you probably read they were wrecked and lost almost everything on the way home. I do not know whether they will have the grit to go back. We are all settling down in our wonderful new laboratories, but every man of us gets off into the wilds of real life during the summer. I took a flying Rocky Mt trip in May and was in at the discovery of a grand old dinosaur
Location
[New York]
Date Original
1897 Nov 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Osborn, Henry F., "Letter from Henry F. Osborn to John Muir, 1897 Nov 18." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2031.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2031
Resource Identifier
muir09_1156-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1156
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
