Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[J. E.] Calkins
Transcription
Adamana, Arizona.
Apr. 8, 1906.
Dear Mr Calkins
I am very glad to hear from you again & sorry I am not at home in California to welcome you there. Since I last wrote you my wife died & my daughter Helen had a severe attack of pneumonia from which she has not completely recovered but is getting well slowly. For her sake I have been in Arizona for nearly a year. Most of the time on the high dry plateau about Adamana. My other daughter Wanda is here also most of the time & the old home at Martinez is closed.
For a long time I was stunned & deadly tired, but hard work in the wonderful petrified forests hereabouts has brought back something of the hold free life with Mother Nature
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Can't you come & visit me here? I should be delighted Adamana on the Santa Fe R.R. is easily reached & I would show you not only the Forests of sil[illegible]fied trees known to tourists but four new ones discovered by Helen & I in the beautiful bad lands within a radius of eight or ten miles of the Sta[illegible] & by the many fine specimens I have found - Segillarias & their dotted stigmari roots - Lepidodendrons, Cycad Tree ferns etc etc besides oldest pines & Araucarias- restore for you in some measure the enchanting auld lang syne forests of the Carboniferous Period.
Do come if you can. We are as near you here as in California. Anyhow I am faithfully yours
John Muir
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Location
Adamana, Arizona.
Date Original
1906 Apr 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [J. E.] Calkins, 1906 Apr 8." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3501.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3501
Resource Identifier
muir16_0153-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0153
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
