Creator
J. E. Mathewson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
Dec. 15th, 1895.
Dear friend Muir
I hope you will excuse me for the long delay in replying to your kind letter of the 30th of April.
It was placed carefully aside in my desk at the office to await a favorable opportunity to reply to same, but unfortunately every time it appeared to me until now my time & attention were demanded on pressing business matters. I hope that you are not thus so much taken up with worldly affairs. However I might feel contented now without business worries, but should
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very much like to try it for a time.
Am arranging to go over to Phila at the end of Jany to see Mr. Tilghman, but do not expect to stay for more than a week, or two weeks at most. If you should happen to be east at the time I shall be delighted to arrange to meet you, but it will be impossible for me to go out to California this time. Will let you know later on, when I shall sail from Liverpool.
Am glad that you were interested in the article in the Society of Arts on Sand Blast, shall keep you fully posted up in future improvements in the process. I do not know whether the Sand Blast is in use in Sanfrancisco or not. Ward & Nash, Chicago, are the agents for our apparatus in the States.
Have often read the name of Senator Spooner of Wisconsin, but did not dream that he was my old schoolmate [illegible] at the
university. I remember James High too. He was high in build as well as in
name if I remember rightly. [illegible]as was the son of a lawyer at Madison I think. Was it he or his father who was the Post Master General some years since?
I have not had time to write to Prof Butler, but will do so at the first opportunity. Remember me to him if you should write him.
My family are all well & join me in heartily wishing you & yours a Merry Christmas & a happy New Year.
Yours sincerely,
J.E. Mathewsons
Location
Sheffield [England]
Date Original
1895 Dec 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Mathewson, J. E., "Letter from J. E. Mathewson to John Muir, 1895 Dec 15." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3172.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3172
Resource Identifier
muir08_1295-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1295
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
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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
