Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Theodore P.] Lukens
Transcription
Thanking mo for 150 Photos Others previous to this are lost
Sierra Nevada & San Gabriel Mts
Martinez, Oct. 18, 1895
Reproduced from the original in the Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery for reference only. Permission necessary for reproduction
My dear Mr Lukens,
Your kind letter & generous package of photographs arrived safely & have thus placed me deeper than ever in your debt. I knew that north Tuolumne country in a general way--knew that its glacial phenomena were on a grand scale & especially heavy but the details you give me in the pictures & letter are very interesting & make me wish I had played truant a week or two longer & gone with you. Anyhow I'm going to Pasadena to hear your story unless you come here soon. I was afraid the little rain we had in the lowlands might work you harm in the mountains as a violent storm though on the other hand I felt pretty confident in your mountain craft for all storms are kindly when
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fairly treated.
The game picture is a good one with the bear & deer but the best of it is yourself in the old canvas hat, recalling our long rides together in Sierra comfort & exhileration. Those photos are much clearer than the first though I suppose they would have been still better had they been given shorter exposure as you say.
Those San Gabriel views bring back my weeks scramble in the flowery chaparral 20 years ago Maggie is now with us & she showed me, the other day, a fine set of pictures of your home the grandchildren etc. But I'll write no more. You come right up here or I'll go right down. I'll only say thank you, I hope you found your wife & children well, & that I am
ever cordially yours John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif]
Date Original
1895 Oct 18
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1895 Oct 18." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3158.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3158
Resource Identifier
muir08_1255-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1255
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
