Creator
Harold French
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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in the study of your gospel of nature-love.
According to our mutual regard for the great work you have done, we have honored our children with your name.
On the seventh of March a son was born to us, whom we have named John Muir French - and our daughter, born sixteen months before, we have called Muriel, for we had intended her brother's name for our first born.
I trust that at some time it may be our privilege to meet you, and it is my earnest hope that John Muir French may live to know you many, many years hence.
Very respectfully yours,
Harold French.
[1]
3104 Ellis St., Berkeley, April 5, 1904.
Mr John Muir,
Sir,
I take great pleasure in being introduced to you by mail through the kindness of Mr John Swett. it has never been my pleasure to have known you personally, but as an author, my wife and I have long felt a deep and growing admiration for you.
Your word-pictures are to
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us a gallery of nature's masterpieces, that delight many an evening in our home; while your thoughts and pictures are ever sources of ideals and inspiration, as we revel in the mountain-trips such as we are permitted to enjoy.
Close contact with the grandeur of Alaska was my privilege for nearly three years, and now that I have renounced the joys of that matchless wilderness for the pleasant groove of a routine position in the United States Mint, I still have a perennial pleasure
Location
Berkeley [Calif.]
Date Original
1904 Apr 05
Source
Original letter dimensions: 15 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
French, Harold, "Letter from Harold French to John Muir, 1904 Apr 5." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2766.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2766
Resource Identifier
muir14_0130-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0130
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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Owning Institution
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Pages
2 pages
