Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
Transcription
[stamped: Bidwell Papers Bancroft Library]
1419 Taylor St S. F. Feb 13th 1878
Dear Mr Bidwell,
Your letter of the 9th [ alt?] is received. I see by Sallies note that our estimate of Prof G’[illegible] was a pretty correct one, But I will not make any further use of Gray’s exposure of him. For however peruicious & deplorable the effects of unfaithful teaching, it is best opposed & controverted by a patient presentation of the truth, rather than by pursuing & giving battle to individual [ humbeys?]. Life is too short to waste in hunting such poor game, the boundaries of the humbey field are being steadily contracted by increase of [underlined: Light], & lovers of truth have nothing to fear. Your sister sent me a birch bark canoe through the post office. She calls it Jumper No 3. it came laden with flowers & altogether forms one of the daintiest conceits you ever saw. Here is a photograph from a negative taken a year ago. Watkins made me sit for another negative, & I will send you a copy from it in a week or two. I am going to see Tahoe & its snowy shows this week. I want a run on snowshoes & a bath in the Keen chaste beauty of that fountain water. Will probably go up Saturday & stay a week or ten days. What do you think of that? With warm regards to the General I am ever cordially yrs John Muir.
Location
1419 Taylor St., S[an] F[rancisco]
Date Original
1878 Feb 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1878 Feb 13." (1878). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 403.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/403
Resource Identifier
muir03_0717-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 03, Image 0716
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
Copyrighted
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
