Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine M.] Graydon
Transcription
[Original letter returned to Miss Katherine Merrill Graydon].
Martinez, California,
Dec. 28, 1904.
Dear Miss Graydon:
We are glad to hear from you. I was just about to begin to write you a letter when yours arrived.
I often think of the charming landscape I saw on that fine drive up the hill with you and Prof. Alexander and of the beauty of your college grounds. Mr. L. T. Alexander's death was unspeakably sad. I noticed the account of the accident in the newspapers and realized how you would feel his loss. How good he was to his friends and all with whom he came in contact! I liked him when first I saw him at his Oakland home when you had just arrived in California. I thank you for news of Indiana friends. I wish I could lighten the sad burdens they are carrying.
Excepting Helen we are all about as usual. She went to the mountains with the Sierra Club, climbed too hard and high and inflamed the sore lung. She is now slowly getting strong again, but needs constant watchful care. She says you have not answered her last letter. I'm trying to write another little book. Did I send you a copy of "Our National Parks?" I'm sending a little volume with this letter, possibly you may know it all by heart.
Remember me to your mother and all the family and families Moores and Merrills. When are you coming to see us? I wish I could find time to take the girls over the blue sea to you. Perhaps I may some day. But anyhow I am ever faithfully yours, and wish you a truly happy New year.
John Muir.
Remember me to your College*friends who received me so kindly.
L*0ahu College, Honolulu, Hawaii].03490
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1904 Dec 28
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Katharine M.] Graydon, 1904 Dec 28." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2930.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2930
Resource Identifier
muir14_0756-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0756
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
Copyrighted
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
