Creator
Elon R. Brown
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
July18,1903.
John Muir. Esq.,
San Francisco , Cal.
My dear Sir:-
Through the liberality of one of our citizens, Mrs. Emma Flower Taylor, we are building and about to equip a library for this City. Knowing your interest in forestry and the spread of accurate information in relation to it, I take the liberty of asking you to suggest the titles of such books on forestry as you think should be in a library --- on that or related subjects, the more the better.
I read your article on Sergeant’s Silva in the Atlantic with great, pleasure.
May be such a forest library would serve as a suggestion to other libraries. While I am thus endeavoring to burden you, please permit me to explain that I have been interested in forestry for many years, for the last five years have been chairman of the forestry committee of the New York Senate, and am now also president of the Board of Trustees of this Library. When President Roosevelt was Governor, I co-operated with him wholly in relation to such interests in the State.
Very respectfully yours
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Location
Watertown, N. Y.
Date Original
1903 Jul 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Brown, Elon R., "Letter from Elon R. Brown to John Muir, 1903 Jul 18." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2671.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2671
Resource Identifier
muir13_0716-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0716
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
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
