Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Frank] Bond
Transcription
[Rough draft of letter]
Jan. 15, 1907.
Dear Mr. Bond:
I thank you for the information contained in your letter of Dec. 28th last.
I don't see how I will be able to describe the boundaries[of the] Pet[rified] forest N[orth] of Adamana by sections even on the Santa Fe Co.'s map, without going over the ground with a surveyor. But after camping 17 days in the N. forest and carefully examining it I am sure that all of it excepting only a few scattered outlying trunks may be comprehended in an area of 2/3 of one township, while the three small patches strewn with trees interesting to the palaeontologist on the W. side of the basin of dead pines (?) cover only about 2 l/2 or 2 sq. m[ile]s, or about 22 sections in all, as shown in the above sketch map.
Rejoicing in hope of the effective preservation of these magnificent monuments of the most ancient? forests,
[John Muir]
[Attached is "Sketch Map of Petrified Forests near Adamana"]
03819
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Date Original
1907 Jan 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 19.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Frank] Bond, 1907 Jan 15." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3629.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3629
Resource Identifier
muir16_0557-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0557
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
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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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
