Creator
Mary Frances Kellogg
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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meeting at the John Muir School. There was gloom and grumbling, you may be sure, at the enforced continuing of our week's duties. But when Dr. Scherer began reading to us from your "Boyhood" book, eager and pleased interest took the place of discontent.
School and work about my house and yard so far are pushing my writing and drawing aside, but I am making a strenuous effort to systematize and make some definite time each day for my other work
I hope you are well, and that the Alaska book is coming on
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[letterhead]
Oct. 19, 1913
My dear Mr. Muir:
I am enclosing a post card photograph of Muir Lodge, in Big Santa Anita Canon [diacritic] near Sierra Madre. We were all sorry that you could not be present, but the fine frame portrait of you adorned the wall.
As you may have known that I was a member of the Cabin Building Committee, you may therefore have wondered at the name of Mr. Geo. Wharton James appearing
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as one of the prominent speakers. Had I known of the plan to ask Mr. James to speak, I should certainly have vetoed it, but unfortunately I was east the latter half of the summer, and the program committee had arranged all in my absence, of course. I did not even have the pleasure of voting to name our building "Muir Lodge", for that too was done in my absence.
"John Muir" is a familiar sound in Pasadena, especially
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this fall. There is the John Muir School, formerly the High School Building. Then the Hetch-Hetchy is frequently talked of, always of course with the mention of you. (By the way, I did my little best - writing to several Congressmen.) Then the naming of the school and the Sierra Club Lodge for you brings your name even more frequently to our lips. Friday afternoon, Oct. 16, the teachers of Pasadena were summoned to a general teacher's
Miss Kellogg
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[letterhead]
toward publication. And I do hope the Hetch-Hetchy matter will be decided justly.
Affectionately your friend
Mary Frances Kellogg
Please notice new R.F.D. Box number.
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Location
Altadena, Calif.
Date Original
1913 Oct 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Kellogg, Mary Frances, "Letter from Mary Frances Kellogg to John Muir, 1913 Oct 19." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4131.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4131
Resource Identifier
muir21_0904-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0904
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
