Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Theodore P.] Lukens

Transcription

he approves P. attenuata for our San Gabriel Mts.

Martinez, Feb 15, 1898

My dear Mr. Lukens

We are very sorry to hear that dear Lottie has caught Scarlet Fever. It is a dreadful disease & we can sympathize with you & the poor child, for Wanda was nearly [last?] in it. We hope & pray fondly that she will be [spared?] to [us?] all.
Helen received the little book she sent & has been waiting for me to go to the city for a book for Lottie. But I have been completely absorbed & made stupid by writing. Your letter came this afternoon just as I completed a long article on the Yellowstone. It will be published in the Atlantic. Now I'm going to begin on the Yosemite Park. & then the Sequoia Park. P. tuberculata on account of saving its seeds can hold its ground on any hillslope however liable to be swept by fire after it is once established. It would be just the tree for the San Gabriel.
[Lemons?] articles have fine photographs but too many names & talks about names.

Fondly hoping the blessed child will soon recover.

I am ever faithfully yours

John Muir

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1898 Feb 15

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0089-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0089

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

Share

COinS
 
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.