Creator
Florence M. Bailey
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
1834 [Kalorama?] Av. Washington
Jan. 14, 1903.
My dear Mr. Muir:
Your letter announcing the nuts and raisins was a surprise. You are altogether too good to us. The beautiful great brushes of raisins are a feast to the eye and the nuts the most delicious we ever tasted. As we eat them they warm our hearts, for it does us good to think that you thought of us.
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Your letter about my book was especially grateful. To know that you like my settings is a substantial comfort. I had worked on the handbook so long that when it was done I felt almost as if my usefulness [was?] over, but the work that after all I like best, and had put aside for it, was on the country itself, so it is peculiarly comforting to have you feel that I have something left to say. How to say it
to interest nature [lovers?] in general, and yet get in the wayside science that I want in is the difficult question.
We were all taken by [storm?] by your grand canyon article. I am thankful that you have done it. No one else could have expressed the canyon.
Mr. Bailey joins me in hearty New Year wishes to you all,
Yours sincerely,
Florence M. Bailey
Location
Washington, [D.C.]
Date Original
1903 Jan 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Bailey, Florence M., "Letter from Florence M. Bailey to John Muir, 1903 Jan 14." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2493.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2493
Resource Identifier
muir13_0062-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0062
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
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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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
