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.
Recommended Citation
Clark, W. W., "Letter from W. W. Clark to John Muir, 1903 Mar 20." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2561.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2561
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 Status
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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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
