Creator

Harry Fielding Reid

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY,
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY,
BALTIMORE,MD.

December 22, 1905.

Mr, John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Mr. Muir:-

Did you get to the glaciers last summer and have you any informations for my annual report on the variations?
I spent the summer in the [illegible] with my family and did more climbing that glacial study. We were in the Dolomites which have some wonderful and beautiful forms ant which carry very, little [illegible]1 was also in the Engadine and there had a meeting of & number of Eropean glacialists , who acoompanied me to the Forno glacier and were convinced of my views regarding the relation of stratification and blue-bands.
All of my family is comparitively wills and the children art growing to be pretty big; my oldest boy la nearly fourteen. With kind regards and beet wishes for a happy Christmas, I am,

Yours very truly.

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Location

Baltimore, Md.

Date Original

1905-12-22 0:00

Source

Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir15_0861-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 15, Image 0861

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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

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