Creator
A.H. Sellers
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
May 18. 1896
My dear Mr Muir.
I have not answered your kind letter of the 27'ult before, because I I have been trying to figure out how one of us could accept your kind invitation to visit Alaska with you but can't.
This Company is assignee of a lot of busted concerns and Frank as trust officer has to attend to such business and as that business is larger these times than usual it is impossible for him to get away. General business is so poor that I am compelled to stay and watch & nurse it.
The trip you describe is the one of all others I should like to take and it was real kind in you to give us the opportunity, one that I have been hoping for, and now that it has come we are both so situated that it is impossible to
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avail ourselves of it. But Muir I am goin to back the business claims and get out for I havent many more years to live. I have worked hard enough and want to enjoy the short time left in travel & study. One of my greatest wishes is to be allowed to spend a little of that time in wandering with you through the grand mountains and caonns of our western coast: and as you & I are both going down this sunset slope of our lives. I realize that if I have to pleasure of your company I must hurry up. I dont know what kind of canons we are going to find in the "great beyond"
With many thanks from both Frank and myself and many kind regards to your family in which Mrs Sellers joins
I remain
Your sincere friend
A H Sellers
Mrs Sellers has just come in & read this letter which she says is all wrong - that she accepts your invitation & wants to go, but I tell her she must stay at home and take care of the "old man"
Location
Chicago [Illinois]
Date Original
1896 May 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sellers, A. H., "Letter from A.H. Sellers to John Muir, 1896 May 18." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 37.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/37
Resource Identifier
muir09_0164-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0164
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
Copyright status unknown
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
