Creator
Dorothy Barry
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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somewhere else, soon there will be no where left for you to go, you will have been everywhere. Will you ever bring out a book on your last travels thro New Zealand & Australia, if so will you let me have the name of it I should like to get a copy. We often think of our delightful time in New Zealand & the pleasure that was
[1] [1904]
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December 6th
My dear Mr. Muir,
It was such a pleasure to me to receive your delightful long letter full of the descriptions of your time in Queensland, it must indeed have been delightful, somehow I think you enjoyed the Ka[illegible]ri Woods of New Zealand the most, it must have been beautiful to have
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been there with some of the noblest of God's trees. It seemed [wicked?] to see them coming down the river to be sawed up & turned into money & it must have gone to your heart far more after having seen them growing. I have been a long time in answering your letter, but we have been
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moving our house, we are living in London now, I feel so lonely there away from the trees & flowers & God's works, but I shall often go down to Blisworth, & if you write to me there letters will always find me, as my brother lives there now. I wonder if you are in California now, or if you have gone off exploring
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college, I wonder if she is still a vegetarian. Your family must have been pleased to have you back again, & interested in all the specimens you brought back. I hope you got the flowers you were collecting in New Zealand safely.
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We were delighted with the wild flowers we saw when in Canada, but we were rather early for the best of them. Mother & Father often talk of you, & send messages of remembrances to you. I expect you are very busy with your writing now, you would find
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much work awaiting your arrival home, in fact I daresay you have not got thru it all yet.
With kindest rembrances
Believe me
Yrs sincerely
Barry
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added by meeting you, & I often think of all that you told me. The Rata will be out now won't it? how beautiful the Otira Gorge must look now, I was so sorry it was nearly over when we were there, it must be lovely. How is your daughter, who was studying at
Location
Norwich [England]
Date Original
1904 Dec 06
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Barry, Dorothy, "Letter from Dorothy Barry to John Muir, 1904 Dec 6." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2910.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2910
Resource Identifier
muir14_0678-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0678
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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
