Creator
Kate Y. Noble
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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Ogden, Utah, May 28. 1904
Mr. John Muir
My dear Sir:-
Please pardon me for intruding upon your time and attention. I have a son of fifteen who fairly lives upon your beautiful, breezy books and the out door experiences with which you have been blessed.
He, too, has climbed the mountains all alone and has left his bed at midnight to look down oer storms below.
So few boys care for real "roughing
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it" and it has occurred to me you might be willing to put me in touch with some party or parties making outing trips this summer and that I might pay his part of expense [&c?] and give references of his character and we could enter the woods as climb the mountains.
He is intensely interested in Scientific Forestry and a tree he would protect above every thing I understand some people would consider my boy a nuisance
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Ogden, Utah,..........................................190
but his love and knowledge of nature would make him a most grateful co[illegible] for the experience, and his hands and feet are willing members.
A surveying party in [mts?] or pleasure seekers Mr. Muir I am aware I have taken a liberty; but your books have taught me much and I feel you will listen and if you can put me in touch with some one I would appreciate and be most grateful.
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Ogden, Utah,...................................190
Hoping I may hear from you
I am
most respectfully yours
Kate Y. Noble
address Ogden
Utah
P.S. I would add the boy is experienced with [illegible]s and knows nothing of fishing; he is fifteen years and is equal to the most rugged climbing.
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Location
Ogden, Utah
Date Original
1904 May 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Noble, Kate Y., "Letter from Kate Y. Noble to John Muir, 1904 May 28 ." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2776.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2776
Resource Identifier
muir14_0176-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0176
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
