Creator
[Henry Fairfield Osborn]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
2000. 4-'99.
AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY,
CENTRAL PARK (77th ST. & CENTRAL PARK, WEST)
.DEPARTMENT OF
VERTEBRATE PALAEONTOLOGY
NEW YORK, July 17th 1899.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez,
California.
My dear friends:-
We have thought of you very often this Spring on your journey to Alaska, surrounded by many philosophers with every kind of training and scientific temperament. No news has come from the party, except a letter from Dr. Duncan's mission. I have no doubt you have found it delightful.
I am just off for the great bone quarry in Wyoming. I hope to spend a fortnight there prospecting for Dinosaurs, then I go down to join the family at Glenwood Springs, Colorado. We are going into the heart of the Rockies, to the White River Plateau, for a four weeks camping trip. This is designed to test the metal of my family in rough work and if they all enjoy it and keep in good health, it will be the first of a series; if they do not enjoy it, it will be the last.
We should be delighted to go into the Yosemite with you, but I would much rather wait and make the trip, at just the right season of the year, selected by yourself, when we can see everything under the very best possible circumstances, ans so with your good will, let us leave the compact to visit the Yosemite together standing and take it up another year.
In the mean time I hope you can come out and visit us again, your room at Wind-and-Wing, has been supplied with a large bath room, which does not disturb the squirrels in the least. Can you not bring out the daughters in the Autumn and make us a visit of a week or ten. days.
02407
Location
New York
Date Original
1899 Jul 17
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 20.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Osborn, Henry Fairfield, "Letter from [Henry Fairfield Osborn] to John Muir, 1899 Jul 17." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2422.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2422
Resource Identifier
muir10_0879-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0879
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
