Creator

Charlotte [Hoffman Kellogg]

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

[1]

Wednesday night

[letterhead]

Dear Hermit,

When are you coming down? We cant wait much longer!
Plasterers and what not still hover blackly on the horizon, but we are quite enough settled to make you comfortable - now that the Phoebus so brightly shineth -
I should have dared urging you while

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to work,and we'll let you alone. We go to Carmel in about three weeks.

Always your devoted

C. H. K.

[2]

it was yet cool enough for fires. For tragic as the truth is, and ever will be, we have no fire-place upstairs! You shall find where one can be shot up the side of the house and some day it may grow there with a pine tree in front of it. Jean hungers for a glimpse of her Uncle John, and her parents? Well, you come and see. Bring your stuff along if you have

Location

Stanford Univ., Calif.

Circa Date

[1913]

Source

Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir21_1150-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 21, Image 1150

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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