Creator

Katharine Hooker

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

Rome, Dec. 5.

My dear Mr Muir

This ship represents your three friends starting off for stranger lands. Constantinople and Cairo, think of it! We join my brother and his wife on the 10th and leave Italy together.
Marian and Eellie are quite excited. I am interested, but not to that point. I am really curious to see whether Egypt will weave a spell

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round me, such as it seems to have done to many of my friends. Our love goes to you and best wishes for the coming year.
May you march to victory in the Hetch Hetchy battle!

Am affectionately Yours

Katharine Hooker

Location

Rome

Circa Date

[1913] Dec 5

Source

Original letter dimensions: 18 x 11.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir21_1044-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 21, Image 1044

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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