Creator

E[dward] H[enry] Harriman

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

Subject :

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD COMPANY.

EXECUTIVE OFFICES,
120 BROADWAY.

NEW YORK, May 12, 1899.

John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez,
Cal.

Dear Sir:

At the meeting of the Invitation Committee held on the 8th inst. it was arranged that the party for Alaska will start from the Grand Central Depot, Forty-second Street, New York, by special train, on Tuesday afternoon, May 23rd, 1899.
Please telegraph me at the above address where you can be reached by wire, so that you may be advised later of the hour at which the boat will leave.
I expect the boat will leave Seattle on May 30th or 31st.

Yours very truly,

E. H. Harriman

M.

Kindly let me know where you will join the party.

To E. H. Harriman

Union Pacific Railroad Company

Executive Office

120 Broadway. New York.

Will join party at Seattle.

Address until twenty fifth Martinez.

John Muir

02577

Location

NewYork

Date Original

1899 May 12

Source

Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir10_0789-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 0789

Collection Identifier

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

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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

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