Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[George W.] Stewart
Transcription
Dear Mr Stewart-
[in margin: 765]
I have no objection to the use of extracts from my letter on Mt Whitney in your Club journal.
I thank you for calling my attention to the canon running parallel to Kern Canon, & to the canon of the Little Kern, both of which I must some time examine.
I shall not be with the Sierra Club this year. After the President's visit to Yosemite May 15th to 18th I expect to make a long trip to Russia, Manchuria, Japan, Jara etc to learn what I can
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sailing from New York May 29th. reaching San Francisco perhaps about the end of the year.
Your article on the Poetry of the Polynesians I have read with great interest. It deserves a place in a better magazine. Sometime you should write a little book on these lovely islands & there inhabitants. Interest in them is growing & will grow for many coming years.
I am glad your club is flourshing. You should gain many members from the south end of the state, & all Fresno should be with you. Remember me to all the Visalia friends I met last year.
Goodbye. Ever faithfully yours.
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [George W.] Stewart, [1903 May 7]." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2624.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2624
Resource Identifier
muir13_0502-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0502
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
Copyrighted
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
