Creator
Anna R. Dickey
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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shown in your Father's treatment of his boys pains me but perhaps inured you to the hardships you were to meet on mountain and glacier in later life. All physiques could not have endured burdens such as were put upon you. On the other hand we seem to have swung the pendulum far to much the other extreme and youth today is weakened by indulgence and lack of reverence and the finer fiber it seems to me.
Donald is getting off on a two months trip to Ojai and desert tomorrow under contract to Mr. Damson. he sold
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[letterhead]
Dear Mr Muir,
Your good letter and the book Boyhood days reached me last week and both were welcomed with enthusiasm in the Dickey home I assure you. I have read most of the latter in the Atlantic but mean to go through it again now I have it as a complete chapter in your life experience. the Scotch mistaken sense of discipline
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him all his bird pictures for the book which is to come out in a year or two. and will be collecting mammals and photos this spring until June then he leaves for the east to be gone six months. I do hope your visit this spring will come before he goes finally. I want him to see you again and exchange woods notes, He is so happy to be really at work. I hope he will go seriously into the natural history part. It would please me to have him give up all money making ambition and devote his life to this work he loves best.
I learn through the Willards that Ellie and all the Hookers are to go abroad for the summer. Fine for them but we shall miss them. I am going over to spend a week with Mrs Hale, just to break the first loneliness when Donald goes as Mr Hale is away until July. She wants me to stay all the time but I can't bear to leave my home. Let me know ahead when you come down & I shall be ready for you any time and get Donald
[in margin: Dickey]
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home, if only I have notice. Dont ride over from Hollywood without warning for my friends gad me about at a great rate when I am alone.
I am delighted to hear you are at work on Alaska notes My dream has not been given up that you should lead Ellie, Marion, Mrs Hooker, Donald and I up Muir glacier (in sight of) but evidently it is not to be this year -
Bessie is looking forward to feeding you up when you get through hibernating in
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your den. It was indeed kind of you to send me the book and I value it and the friendship of the giver beyond words. I rather like the article on you in the Craftsman December by [Ada?] Barrus. She is cleverer than I dreamed.
Donald joins me in love and best wishes
Anna R. Dickey
March thirty-six
Box 701
Pasadena
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Location
Pasadena [Calif.]
Circa Date
[1913] Mar 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Dickey, Anna R., "Letter from Anna R. Dickey to John Muir, [1913] Mar 30." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3948.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3948
Resource Identifier
muir21_0247-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0247
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
