Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

Katharine Hooker

Transcription

[1]

[letterhead]

April 14

My dear friend

Thank you so much for the beautiful portrait. I like it greatly. You see how much easier it is for photographers to satisfy your friends than mine! You don't even like the little picture I sent you last. But behold what I am enclosing this time--just what you ask for, a photograph by Dassonville. Do you like this any better?

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[2]

He took a great many negatives and this one was the best
You know I shall be only too pleased to have some copies of your new book to give to friends. "Two dozen" is almost too generous a supply, but there would be no doubt about their all being appreciated.
The bookstores here are too stupid for belief. I cannot imagine

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[3]

their not having an ample supply of anything you publish.
I am going down to Los Angeles tomorrow night--or rather to Pasadena--to spend a week with the Willards.

Ever affectionately

yours

Katharine Hooker

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Location

San Francisco

Circa Date

[1913] Apr 14

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir21_0317-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 21, Image 0317

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html

Owning Institution

The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Pages

3 pages

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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