Creator

John Muir

Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

Robin Hood [James S. Merriam]

Transcription

April 16th, 1903.

Mr Robin Hood

209 W 56th Street

New York, N.Y.

Dear and blessed Robin:-

Your long, delightful, breezey, woodsey, witty letter charmed us all. None but Robin could have sent such a breeze of pure wildness out of 56th Street or any other street. it wafted us all up into the fragrant exhilarating Kaweah Sequoia Sierra again.
We are glad you liked the few pictures

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we sent you. Helen says that she is going to sit for a picture especially for you the next time she is in San Francisco. We are delighted to learn that we are to see Clint Hart again this summer. In a recent letter he said that he expected to be in San Francisco about the 14th of May. That is the very day that I expect to leave S.F. for Yosemite with the President. and on the 18th or 19[th?] start

[in margin: 761]

Location

[Martinez, Calif.]

Date Original

1903 Apr 16

Source

Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir13_0428-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 13, Image 0428

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

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Pages

2 pages

Keywords

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

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