Creator
Anita Glasgon O'Fallon
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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in the mean time written since about the forests & if you could direct me as to how to secure them [illegible]
[illegible] is just 16 yrs. old But his collections for a child are very wonderful & of value & great interest to me—
We brought home a few samples, but
[1] Feb. 8, 1907
[letterhead]
Professor
John Muler
My dear Sir
Some time during last August, I had the very great pleasure of meeting you & your handsome young daughter out at the canyon of the Colorado. At
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the Grand [View?] Hotel. and ever since I have meant to write you & thank you for your very great kindness in so clearly directing us as to the locations of the different Petrefied Forests at Adamana.
But for your Enthusiasm I am afraid I might have passed seeing such a wonderful and
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grand sight as we found it to be. My boys delight and happiness there was intense. And I only wished you could have been there - We did want to know so much about the forests & wood &c. And since home I have found no books to aid me.
I am wondering if you have not
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I [can?] & never shall forget!
It was a most exquisite day. and the scene was fairy land like to me—
Mr Stevenson and family were very kind to us.
I longed for more time but school hurried my boy
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home. He had to be here Sept. 4.
If you journey Eastward and you & your daughter pass through St. Louis. Do let me know ahead. Just write or wire me and John & I should be so charmed to do all we could for you in our city
[8]
very truly yours
(Mrs) Anita Glasgon O'Fallon
4202 West Pine St
St. Louis
Mo
Feb. 8/1907-
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could not find any root pieces [illegible]. Are any such possible to find - and you spoke about some pieces [showing?] leaf connections.
In which forest did you find these? We went to the north forest & the view of the Painted Desert
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Location
St. Louis, Mo.
Date Original
1907 Feb 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
O'Fallon, Anita Glasgon, "Letter from Anita Glasgon O'Fallon to John Muir, 1907 Feb 8." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3651.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3651
Resource Identifier
muir16_0633-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0633
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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
