Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Henry F.] Osborn
Transcription
Martinez, California,
November 1897
My dear Prof. Osborn
Where have all the Osborns been this Summer? I thought of you the other day when I read your Great [illegible]turalist in the Century and many times last summer in Alaska. [illegible] I spent a short time in the Rocky Mountain forests between Banff [illegible] Glacier with (Prof.) Sargent and Mr. Ganby then we went to Alaska, mostly by the same route you traveled. We were on the Queen had your state rooms. The weather was not so fine as during your trip. The glorious color we so enjoyed on the upper deck was wanting, but the views of the noble peaks of the Fair weather Range were sublime. They were perfectly clear loomed in the azure, ice-laden and white like very Gods. Canby Sargent were lost in admiration as if they had got into a perfectly new world so they had, old travelers though they are. I've been writing about the forests, mostly, doing what little I can to save them. Harpers weekly the Atlantic Monthly have published something; the latter published an article last August, I sent another two weeks ago am pegging away on three others for the same magazine on The National Parks Sequoia and I want this winter to try some more Alaska. But I make slow hard work of it - slow and hard as glaciers. I missed seeing our good friend Kip. Fe arrived in San Francisco just as I left for the Rockies. When are you coming again to our wild side of the continent how goes your big book? I suppose it will be about as huge as Sargents Silva,
When next you come west you must all come to our house,[illegible] I my little girls will go with you to Yosemite.
With Kindest regards to all the Osborns and the Wing-on-Wing Chickarus I am
Ever cordially yours
John Muir
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Location
Martinez, Calif.
Circa Date
1897 Nov [1]
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Henry F.] Osborn, 1897 Nov [?]." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2035.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2035
Resource Identifier
muir09_1166-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1166
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
