Creator
Augusta Ackinson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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all the time while there I could not help but think of you. for it is the most natural thing in the world to associate the Big trees with you, as to associate you with the Big Trees.
It was my first visit and you can imagine the wonderful impression
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No. 95 North Bonnie Ave
Pasadana, Cal.
My Dear John Muir,
Dear Friend:
As you are a friend to all nature, you must be a friend to me, for I am part of Nature. We have just returned from a short (too short) visit to the Big Trees in the Big Basin. and
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it made on me. I just wanted to breath, breath in God - and keep still. How I would love to tramp all over those dear mountains and know them; I love them any way.
I visited some friends at a little place in the Santa Cruz mountains, Ben Lomond, and we went to the Big Basin from there, but did not make much of a stay. While at Ben Lomond I trampled in the woods alone much of the time, and how I did enjoy it! I found a most beautiful shrub of which I am not able to find the name, and will send a little stem of it to you under separate cover, and wish you would tell me what it
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when the plant had come in contact with the earth, the roots are sort of yellow, much as are the roots of mulberry.
I know how busy you are, and much as I dislike to trouble you, still I am selfish enough to ask this favor of you. I won't take up any more of your time now. It had been so long since
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is. It was so beautiful in its home, grew along the bank of a mossy little brook and reminded me somewhat of the bitter sweetberries in the east, although it is a bush and in its natural state looks like little lanterns hung along the underside of the stems and leaves. I brought home some roots and I saw that roots had started.
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I heard any thing from you I just wanted to "shake Hands" and hope you might be intending to come south this winter so we could have the pleasure of seeing you again.
Wishing you all success I am cordially yours
(Mrs. J. L.) Augusta Atkinson
P. s. Am anticipating your new book.
Location
Pasadena, Calif.
Circa Date
[1913]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Ackinson, Augusta, "Letter from Augusta Ackinson to John Muir, [ca. 1913]." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4204.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4204
Resource Identifier
muir21_1126-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 1126
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
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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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
