Creator
C[harles] S. Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
ARNOLD ARBORETUM.
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., April 30, 1896
My dear Mr. Muir:
I am exceedingly obliged your fox your letter of the 23rd and the information about General Bidweil and his crossing the Sierras which I will certainly refer to in The Silva.
By all means, if yoa jo to Alaska, look oat Tor the distribution for all Pines, Firs and Spruces, and gather for me if possible athigh elevations and, remote points as specimens as you can inorder to show distribution. I hope too you will be able to make notes on the distribution size, uses, etc., of all these trees in Alaska as I shall be prevented from visiting that country before the completion of The Silva, and you can help me enormously by gathering such facts.
Perhaps you may feel like writing for Garden and Forest some account of the Alaska trees and forests. This you can do in a most instructive way, being able to compare them with the more valuable forests further south. In any case, whether your notes are ever written out or not, I hope you will make them as full as possible for my benefit.
With kind regards, I am,
always faithfully yours,
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Date Original
1896 Apr 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C[harles] S. Sargent to John Muir, 1896 Apr 30." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 32.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/32
Resource Identifier
muir09_0150-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0150
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
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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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
