Creator
Edward R. Taylor
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[in margin: Miscellaneous]
[letterhead]
December 10. 1897.
My dear Muir
Tom Magee was in my office yesterday, and in speaking of his deliverance from his recent perils & hardships, said he felt that it was due to nature's protection of him by reason of his love for her; that you had told him that the wild apple had more seeds than the cultivated one, etc. I then set to thinking about your own experience
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on the glacier with the little dog, and other great perils of yours from all of which you were so fortunately delivered. The result of it all was a sonnet composed last evening, a copy of which I send.
Keith was ill for ten days; but last Saturday was all right. I have not seen him since.
[Yrs?]
Edward R. Taylor
John Muir
[in margin: I have just seen Keith. He is nearly quite himself again.]
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1897 Dec 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 27.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Edward R., "Letter from Edward R. Taylor to John Muir, 1897 Dec 10." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2041.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2041
Resource Identifier
muir09_1190-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1190
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
