Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Melville Best] Anderson
Transcription
Heartiest congratulations my dear Professor Anderson on your revels in Dante Land. With love & best wishes for the New Year. from your faithful friend
John Muir
Martinez, California
Dec. 29, 1906
Martinez, Dec. 29, 1906
Dear Professor Osborn
I heartily wish you all a happy New Year, and congratulate you on your election to the Secretaryship of the Smithsonian Institution, also I congratulate you on your firm pluck and good sense in declining the honor
When I first heard the news I said "a great honor for Osborn and the Institution, well won and well done, but how can he leave his vastflocks and herds outspread over all the Continent" and when I readyour letter to the Chancellor I was glad. May you live long, free and strong, to finish your own great work- a work worthy of grandold Huxley, and believe me
faithfully your friend
John Muir
[Note]Referring to Professor Osborn's explorations and Collection of fossil vertebrates for the American Museum of natural History which began in 1891
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Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1906 Dec 29
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Melville Best] Anderson, 1906 Dec 29." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3610.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3610
Resource Identifier
muir16_0479-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0479
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Stanford University Library Dept. of Special Collections. 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
