Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARBERD UNIVERSITY.
Jamacia Plain Mass., July 8, 1897.
My dear [J?] Muir:
I have yours of the 1st. There is nothing like being young and energetic, as you seem to be, and I am sure you will not return from Shasta without the flowers we need. If any fellow can show a tree five hundred feet high, we will go and look at it. It is about time, it seems to me,that the maximum height of our trees should be settled. I feel sceptical, however, of finding any over four hundred feet. An Oak sixteen feet in diameter might be, but Patten's Hemlock surely does not grow in the San Gabriel Range. He has mistaken it for our old friend Pseudotsuga macrocarpa. I return newspaper cuttings.
I still expect to start August 2nd.
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]
John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.
02315
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Date Original
1897 Jul 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1897 Jul 8." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2271.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2271
Resource Identifier
muir09_0968-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0968
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
