Creator
Dorothy Barry
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
New Zealand, you would be happy among your big trees again. I shall always look back on the days we spent with you in New Zealand as some of the most pleasant & delightful, & keep the book as a souvenior of one of our charming fellow-travellers whom we hope to meet again
With kindest remembrances from my brother & father
Believe me,
yrs sincerely
Dorothy Barry-
[in margin 400]
[1] [1904]
Blisworth
R.S.O
Northamptonshire
July 27th
My dear Mr. Muir,
I do not know how to thank you for sending me your beautiful book, it is so good of you to have thought of me, & I shall always value it. We were so sorry not to meet you again, we thought perhaps you would cross ice
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[2]
the same boat from Auckland to Sydney as we did, but some day we hope to have the pleasure of seeing you again. After reading your book I long to rush off & see the beautiful big trees in California.
We came home by Canada going from Vancouver to Quebec on the C. P. R. it is beautiful scenery
[3]
but in places it is terrible how the trees have been brunt, it does seem so wicked to [illegible]fully destroy what God has so beautifully made. I wonder which way you returned & if you went to Japan as you thought of doing. How did you like the kauri forests up in the north of
Location
Northamptonshire [Eng.]
Date Original
1904 Jul 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 15 x 19.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Barry, Dorothy, "Letter from Dorothy Barry to John Muir, 1904 Jul 27." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2841.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2841
Resource Identifier
muir14_0434-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0434
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
