Creator
Melville B. Anderson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Via Giovan Battista Amici,
Florence, 1 Feb., 1913
Dear Friend,
Probably I sent you this booklet at Christmas, I don't find a record & can no longer reply upon memory. It is perhaps no bad thing that Memory forsakes us sooner than Hope! But your memory, at any rate, is still vivid: witness your "Plunge into the Wilderness" (and into the Atlantic!), which here, in this foreign atmosphere, recalls some memorable evenings with you and fills me with nostalgia for California. Time is good to you: what life, grace, humor, pathos! This is as it should be,
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To John Muir Esq., LL.D.
and my prayer is that it may long be so. You are writing an autobiography destined to take a place apart in that most interesting & instructive order of literature. You never wrote better: the book bids fair to be classic. I have heard you say you hate to write; but it is not the facile, it is the reluctant, who write the real books. Keep this in mind, for it means you, and press on toward the mark of your high calling. Pardon this exhortation from an unworthy admirer.
Ever affectionately Yours,
Melville B Anderson
Location
Florence [Italy]
Date Original
1913 Feb 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Melville B., "Letter from Melville B. Anderson to John Muir, 1913 Feb 1." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3904.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3904
Resource Identifier
muir21_0107-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0107
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
