Creator

C[harles] S[prague] Sargent

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass, December 16, 1899.

My dear Muir:

How are you getting along? Better, I hope, than we are in this part of the world. I have had a horrid attack of bronchitis which kept me in the house for ten days and which is still troublesome but better, and my oldest daughter on her return from Europe was taken with typhoid fever, fortunately not a bad case. She is better but not sitting up yet.
Crataegus still bothers me and seems a hopeless task. I do not think I shall ever finish it.I have at last received specimens from Oregon which satisfy [illegible] that the fruit of Hooker's Juniperus occidentalis requires two years in which to ripen.It is possible, therefore, that the species of the high Sierra is the same as that of the plains of eastern Oregon. The specimens, however, look somewhat different but I find no way of satisfactorily separating them. Some one who knows about Junipers ought to see these trees growing. Any chance of your getting to Oregon this winter or in the early spring, or on your way east?
We can meet either in St. Louis or San Antonio as you may prefer. Canby and I are both counting on your company.
With kind regards to your family and the compliments of the season.

Faithfully yours,

John Muir,Esq.

C. S. Sargent

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Location

Jamaica Plain, Mass.

Date Original

1899 Dec 16

Source

Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir10_1097-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 10, Image 1097

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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Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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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