Creator

W. W. Clark

Creator

W. W. Clark

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

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[letterhead]

Tuscaloosa, Ga. Mar. 20 1903

John Muir,

Western Coast N. A.

Dear Sir,

Enclosed clipping. [from?] N.Y. World tells of your trip to Yellowstone Park with Roosevelt, and Burroughs. -
I'm delighted to know you are to be with our young President.-
Especially he needs your [Missionary?] influences to lead him on to see that kindness to Animals is far better than shooting them.
This morn [I've?] read, "The Red Cross". by Clara Barton.
May the warriors, soon learn

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to "beat their swords into plow share's, "Their spears, into pruning hooks" is my earnest prayer, and I know of no one who is leading them towards that point any more successfully than you.
No, no, I not given to [illegible] praise.- rather, the opposite, for I find myself complaining when praise would do more good.
Here I'm, wintering at the Old "Home", for 30 odd years, of my only brother, (now deceased) 35 miles [illegible] city of Savannah He came from Maine our birth place to Ga. in 1847- living in this state until Aug. 1898 - over 50 yrs.
So you see I'm in the "Piney Woods" - not so far from the early Home of our [illegible]. Friend Le Conte,

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You may be surprised at style of my paper,- but it indicates one line of some of my missionary work.- as I think Alcohol, man's greatest enemy. For 16 yrs. I've secured names to [illegible] pledge - and using it as a heading to my letters, simply raises, the question, and sets people. thinking.—
Give my high regards to the members of your family telling them I cannot forget their delicate and kind attention to me last summer-

Sincerely W. W. Clark

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Location

Tuscaloosa, Ga.

Date Original

1903 Mar 20

Source

Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0302-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0302

Collection Identifier

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

Copyright Statement

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

2 pages

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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