Creator
Katharine Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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me warm pleasure whenever I look at them, and I am glad you put in the charming and quaint little pattern of the grasshopper's "walking tracks". It makes me smile every time I glance at it. Those people who walk through the world unaware of the small ways of nature - what joy and satisfaction they miss!
I do not wonder your little nest in the
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325 W. ADAMS STREET
LOS ANGELES
Aug. 3.
My dear Mr Muir
I have just come home bringing Marian with me. It has been a hard and anxious time, but they tell me she is now in a way to be strong and well again. Of course she must be careful for some [illegible] to come, and she cannot go into college again
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for the coming year, and this is the most trying thing she could have to bear, but she has made up her mind to it. The doctor wishes her to go to the mountains for a month, so tomorrow she is to start with Ellie and Maude for Lake Tahoe.
I find here waiting for me, all the treasures you have sent me and I know Eillie has explained to you [illegible] I have not
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seen and acknowledged them sooner. I do assure you I appreciate every one, the books, the photographs and the written words, and I think it very generous of you to have sent me so many interesting and precious things. The portraits of you - [illegible] of them please see as likenesses and then I like to see you in the two places, with your books and among your beloved trees. The friendly inscriptions will give
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325 W. ADAMS STREET
LOS ANGELES
Yosemite remained so long undiscovered - and what a growth of exquisite things surrounds it!
These magazine articles I shall read with great interest but I am not sure that indignation will not get the better of it when I consider that unspeakable man who robbed you and the dead to make money for himself. Really there should
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be some adequate punishment for such as he.
Your daughter Helen looks well and happy I am glad to see in this photograph of her, and as though she were as much at home in the desert as her father. I hope your anxiety is at an end. It seems to me that when I have read your part of the observations
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on the cruise of the Corwid I ought to return the book to you, for I hardly think you have another copy.
The girls all send you their love. They are just starting up to the Tahoe region.
With warm regards,
sincerely yours
Katharine Hooker
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Location
Los Angeles
Circa Date
[1907] Aug 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hooker, Katharine, "Letter from Katharine Hooker to John Muir, [1907 ?] Aug 3." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3724.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3724
Resource Identifier
muir16_0859-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0859
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
