Creator
Cha[rle]s F. Lummis
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
The Southwest Society,
Archaeological Institute
of America
PRESIDENT, J. O. KOEPFLI
VICE-PRESIDENTS
GEN. H. G. OTIS
H. W. O’MELVENY
GEO. F. BOVARD, D. D.
DR. NORMAN BRIDGE
TREASURER, W. C. PATTERSON
RECORDER AND CURATOR, DR. F. M. PALMER
SECRETARY, CHAS. F. LUMMIS, LIT. D.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
MAJ. E. W. JONES
DR. F. M. PALMER
J. A. FOSHAY
MARY E. FOY
MRS. WM. H. HOUSH
CHAS. F. LUMMIS
DR. J. H. MARTINDALE
JOSEPH SCOTT
WM. H. BURNHAM
C. J. K. JONES
J. D. BICKNELL
Los Angles, Cal.,
July. 10, 1907.
Dear Muir:-
Thank you for the good letter --- but I have taken a half hour off to swear over it at the idea that you should be here and I didn't see you. That really is too much! It is so long since I have allowed anyone to talk to me; and you are about the only person that I can listen to with philosophy for a long time. Glad you had the visit with the Sellers. They are good people --- and I am glad they are converted to God's Country.
You ought to have been here about now; for while the school teachers are a nuisance en masse there are some that are worth while --- particularly among the Indian teachers of whom we have been having some at the house this week. It is a marvel to me to see the Government officially carrying
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out my plans for which I was nearly hanged twenty years ago. They are even encouraging the Indians to keep their own songs, and stories, and arts! Wouldn't that jar you after a century in which they have tried to make these First Americans ashamed of themselves and their parents, and their arts?
I enclose something that has just come to me from long ago, thinking you may enjoy it. When you get done, send it back. It is something I wrote when we were both younger.
Our love to you and to the dear girls,
Always,
Your Friend,
[illegible]
03891
Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
1907 Jul 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Lummis, Charles F., "Letter from Cha[rle]s F. Lummis to John Muir, 1907 Jul 10." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3713.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3713
Resource Identifier
muir16_0829-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0829
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
