Creator
Anne H. Colver [Mrs. Henry Clay Colver]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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I must express my gratitude to you for giving me the joy of meeting him, whom I had long loved, but never hoped to meet.
I want to say one work to you about your story of you and the dog Stickeen on a glacier. I have known people who wanted that in some form by itself. Don't you think it would find a sine sale as one of the
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1303-16th Ave. Seattle
August 25th-'99
Dear Mr Muir: -
When I heard the Harriman Expedition was really coming back this way, but not, the steamship company assured me, until the first of Aug., I planned to ha[illegible]t the water front and have a glimpse of you fresh
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from your experiences. The Sun. of July 30th, when you came, we had ventured to go accross the lake, Lake Washington, to a spot I wanted to take you and John Burrought. when we returned, we did not find your envelope with your names], as a mischievous boy had taken it away, and I only found it by accident the next
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day. I went down town at once but too late for the train and the Elder as well, so whichever way you went I missed it all, and feel it to be all unspeakable loss. I do not like to think of you and John Burroughs standing outside my door, with no welcome to greet you. I never felt my little library more honored than when you and he sat in it.
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Christmas books, if brought out early in the fall, so it would be known to be on the market? Do submit it to your publisher and turn a penny for yourself, and let it reach many who did not see it in the magazine. To me it is a classic and when you bring it
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out, I am going to ask you to let me send my copy to you for your signature.
I hope I am not too bold in suggesting your bringing it out, and feel confident if you do you will have no
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regrets. I am always glad to have known you, and hope we may meet again
I am cordially
Anne H. Colver
To Mr John Muir
Martinez Cal.
From
Mrs Henry Clay Colver
1303-16th Ave., Seattle
Location
Seattle [Wash.]
Date Original
1899 Aug 25
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 22 cm.
Recommended Citation
Colver, Anne H., "Letter from Anne H. Colver [Mrs. Henry Clay Colver] to John Muir, 1899 Aug 25." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2433.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2433
Resource Identifier
muir10_0923-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0923
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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
