Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
Transcription
Martinez, Mar. 25, 1900
My dear Prof. Sargent.
I cannot find a spare copy of No 14 Sierra Club Bulletin. Still if you must have it I'll break my own set. You say I did not try to help you to get good photographs of sugar-pine & Redwood. Go to, you grumbling sinner! sighing by guess like a wounded Jeffrey pine in a gale. I spent days turning over my own Coll. & others in San Frnacisco & sent the best I could find. Mr Sawyer tells me he is going to get a betterlends & try to make a collection of representative trees animals etc, so your long felt want may yet be satisfied. What has bothered you this winter to so completely abolish your
calm Boston temper? Judging by your letters you are as stinging & prickly as a cockspur crataigus. As to this "quitting" business, how can a fellow quit what he has never joined? To explain this would require the airy wisdom of a Jamaica Plain transcendentalist Who did the quitting when a poor Scotchman was left alone among the Palmettoes of Florida? & who had to be dragged to Alaska like a sinner to Paradise to prevent the rankest wickedest quitting? Ask you conscience or Canby. Verily in the last summers of the Century you seem to have quit everything except your hawthorns & sins - I have no plans as yet for the summer Perhaps you had better join me in a trip through the Sierra parks & brnig a good photographer. May the balmy south woods sweeten you. Love to Canby.
Ever Yours, John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1900 Mar 25
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1900 Mar 25." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4254.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4254
Resource Identifier
muir11_0173-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0173
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html )
Owning Institution
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Archives, Boston, Massachusetts. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
