Creator
[Thomas Magee]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
11th Jnry/98
Friend Muir =
Mrs. Coolbrith was elected for 6 mos to the position of librarian of the Merced Library at the meeting last night. Strong opposition [illegible] was cropping out - why I don't know.
I enclose letter from our old friend Mr Landsboro write him or me a word or two about the [illegible] idea of when he speaks. Sniff him out in what
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Im [say?] His address - if [Im] write direct to him - is Kilmarnock
[in margin: 901]
In spite of the severe weather & half [illegible] along the [Dalton?] trails from before daylight until nearly dark every way & into poor [&?] insufficient foods the trip out did me good The 200 miles in a canoe up stream against very heavy [illegible] ice & the current was a terror - a holy terror I fully calculated that I would never get out, but I didnt care - in the sense that I was not afraid in the least & that if I fell in the least I would have fallen [fighting?] I had with six others diarrhoea into bloody hemmorhages & lumbago in 3 days that no [illegible] in the severity of its pain, I
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1898 Jan 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Magee, Thomas, "Letter from [Thomas Magee] to John Muir, 1898 Jan 11." (1898). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2057.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2057
Resource Identifier
muir10_0041-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0041
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
