Creator
Geo[rge] Nicholson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
How I should have liked to see Egypt and India in your company! The immemorial East has always been a dream of mine but I fear it will remain a shadow for me. Also California - another dream. I have not the courage now to undertake a long journey nor indeed the means necessary. So I diligently peruse travels in various lands of which I possess quite an interesting series in my library.
Yours very sincerely
Geo. Nicholson.
[1]
37, LARKFIELD,
RICHMOND.
3. 2. 04
Dear Mr Muir
I have tried hard to procure Hooker's Journal in the Himalayas but so far have failed. The first edition is out of print (2 vols) but a cheaper one I felt sure could be had. The other day however my order of a copy came back endorsed out of print. I am sorry but I shall
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[2]
keep a look out in secondhand bookseller's lists and I am sure to succeed in time. I wonder what you are doing and where you are. I am busy with my microscope every day among lower forms of life and get a deal of pleasure out of it. The micro-fungi are my especial pets and I have a lot growing under a bell glass on the table I am now writing on.
So far I have made several additions to our knowledge
[3]
of these wonderful things. Prof. Sargent has written me once or twice but I am afraid I have left his letter unanswered. This however must be remedied. I am looking forward to your opinion on Leslie Stephens "Playground of Europe". The only thing I collect now is Alpine books. As I shall never climb again I content myself with reading of the regions "far above the ordinary haunts of the devil" and the pestilence that walketh in darkness".
Location
Richmond
Date Original
1904 Mar 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Nicholson, George, "Letter from Geo[rge] Nicholson to John Muir, 1904 Mar 2." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2754.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2754
Resource Identifier
muir14_0084-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0084
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
