Creator
Robert Ridgway
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]
Brookland, D.C.
June 8, 1900
Dear Mr. Muir:
I [have?] just had the pleasure of reading your most interesting article in the Atlantic Monthly for April on the forests of the Sierras. There is just one statement therein that I would challenge, and I cannot resist the temptation to do so. You say that "of all the fifty species of American oaks north of Mexico" that you know "only two - the white oak of the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and the live oak of Florida - surpass the mountain live oak in size." Now I spent a month in the Sacramento Valley, [mostly?] among the oak groves and have spent six month in different parts of Florida; yet among thousands of trees of the two kinds mentioned I never saw one that would
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Location
Brookland, D. C.
Date Original
1900 Jun 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24.5 x 16.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Ridgway, Robert, "Letter from Robert Ridgway to John Muir, 1900 Jun 8." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4277.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4277
Resource Identifier
muir11_0247-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0247
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
