Creator

Alice Spencer Hooker Jones

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

[4]

for in the winter it is hard to keep this comfortable.
I wonder where you are! Are people there any nicer than we are? and do they pin fresh roses on you every day?
Fred is well and joins me in the very kindest regards as always

Hark the Lark.

Alice Spencer Hooker Jones

[1]

325 W. Adams

Aug 14/13-

My dear Mr Muir, _

I think of you very often, look at your splendid picture and then read once again some of your Boy stories, and then it seems

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[2]

as if you were not so far away.
We are spending the summer between Live Oak, Sierra Madre and "320". Willock faithfully keeps the garden blooming, although I know he misses so much his Beloved Master

[3]

and Mistress of the Manor_
Nothing, as yet, has been done to sell - but I am sure in the early winter Mrs H. will need her furniture to furnish the new San Fancisco Home.
Fred and I plan to take a much smaller place.

Location

[Los Angeles]

Date Original

1913 Aug 14

Source

Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir21_0670-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 21, Image 0670

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

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

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