Creator
Charles Keeler
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[in margin: Charlie Keeler]
Sweetbrier Camp,
Castella, Shasta County, Cal.
August 16th 1903
My dear Mr. Muir:
What a wanderer you are! I have no idea where to address you, but will send this to Martinez to be forwarded. All the spring I thought of going to see you, and planned for it, but Louise was not very well and I had the misfortune to become entangled in one task after another, that left me no freedom. Then you went off to the Yosemite with the President, and whisk! before I knew what had happened you were started for the ends of the earth! What a royal good time you will have of it, so happily companioned and in such far wildernesses!
Our summer has passed quietly enough in this woodland nook beside
03291
loving greetings to you, and wishes for all happiness and success upon your journey.
From your friend
Charles Keller
the rushing waters of the Sacramento. I have had some fine tramps to the heights - on the McCloud trail where one may find superb views of Shasta and the Crags - to the summit of the Crags themselves, and up and down the river.
We have watched the blooming and seeding of the wildflowers, the nesting of the birds, and all the wood folk at their feast of nuts and berries. Louise has been making designs from the wild-flowers for decorating a new collection of my songs, and I have been finishing a set of children's poems "Little Songs of Sunland", which I commenced for Merodine some years ago.
Now we are turning our thoughts homeward after nearly three months in the pine woods, and in a few days more we shall be in Berkeley ready to settle down to our tasks for the winter.
Louise and Merodine join me in
Location
Castella, Shasta Co., Calif.
Date Original
1903 Aug 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Keeler, Charles, "Letter from Charles Keeler to John Muir, 1903 Aug 16." (1903). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2689.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2689
Resource Identifier
muir13_0782-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 13, Image 0782
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
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
