Creator
A[lexander] W. Drake
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead] New York, Aug 16th 1877.John Muir Esq.. Dear Sir, I have just read your article on “The Humming bird of the California water falls” and am delighted with it. It offers a fine field for illustrations. I write to see if you know of any picture of the bird that has been published and if so if you will please give me the title of the book in which it appeared! Your sketches will be of great use to our article – to work from and if not too much trouble I would like you to make several others of which I send the following [ but?] No 1 One of this bird or birds flying about in the [ spray?][in margin: 00750] 2 [letterhead] 2 Diving in foaming ed[illegible] 3 A view under water of the three Ouzels feeding at bottom of the lake. This will make a novel and striking picture. 4 Ouzels flying under water (this is important.) 5 Ouzel entering a white torrent 5 Ouzel swooping down the incline of cascades. As none of one bird artists here have seen the Ouzel it would be impossible for them to give any idea of how he flies without a sketch to guide them[in margin: 00750]
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3 [letterhead]I fear I am asking a great deal of you but will try and make such good cuts of the different subjects that you will feel it has not been in vain. Your sketches need not be finished but [illegible] [diagrams?] to guide our men in pulling on the wood. I can send you sketches in most cases I think of the subject we draw so that there will be no mistakes. Hoping that you may be able to find time to draw these I [illegible] Yours Truly A.W. Drake.[in margin: I enclose a copy of [portion?] of [illegible] thinking you might need it for sketching.][in margin: 00750]
Location
New York
Date Original
1877 Aug 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Drake, Alexander W., "Letter from A[lexander] W. Drake to John Muir, 1877 Aug 16." (1877). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 372.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/372
Resource Identifier
muir03_0556-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0555
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
