Creator

John Muir

Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

J. E. Calkins

Transcription

[Rough draft of letter]

[July, ? 1904 ]

Mr. J. E. Calkins,
Davenport, Iowa.
My dear Sir:

Good lovers of God's wildness are far from common even in these days of nature books, nature studies, and annual outings, etc., so you may be sure I sorely regret missing you. I was in Australia when your kind letter to me was written (March 29th), and did not get home until the end of June. It was some days later before I found it in the big talus of books, pamphlets, and letters piled on my desk. But you must come again. Editors should take a good long rest every year - a complete rest, especially after long-continued overwork has resulted in nervous prostration, None of you "observations on the country, climate, conditions of living, etc." in long letters to the Democrat - a queer cure for overwork, particularly in the southern cities where real (unreal) estate agents make one dizzy with their confounded "mean temperature." No, you must change all that. Come with your wife to the Sierra next spring and rest under a Sequoia or a sugar pine. Come to my house and make it your headquarters and home, and I'll show you [how] it is done.
If you come by the Santa Fe get off at Muir Station, near our house. If by Southern Pacific, stop at Martinez, within a mile and a half of our house. If by the Union and Central Pacific you had better go on to San Francisco and there take a Santa Fe train to "Muir", which is only an hour and a half's ride, including the sail across the bay to Pt. Richmond. You will find a summer in the Sierra a genuine recreation.
I've been away more than a year, and have seen something of Europe, Asia, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand - the parks, gardens, art galleries, etc. of Europe, broad fertile Russia, the Crimea, Black Sea region, the forests and glaciers of the Caucasus, the broad densely forested ridges of the Ural Mountains.

[Draft of letter evidently incomplete]03419

Location

[Martinez, Calif.]

Circa Date

[1904 Jul]

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir14_0450-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 14, Image 0450

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Pages

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

Share

COinS
 
 
 

To view the content in your browser, please download Adobe Reader or, alternately,
you may Download the file to your hard drive.

NOTE: The latest versions of Adobe Reader do not support viewing PDF files within Firefox on Mac OS and if you are using a modern (Intel) Mac, there is no official plugin for viewing PDF files within the browser window.