Creator
Beth Averell
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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of your messages upon Dr. [Converse?]. In the first place, I'm afraid you didn't "christianize him" entirely - for he is again in [Montanna?] hunting the beasts of the forests and mountains And so I have not had even
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September 8 -
325 East Avenue
Rochester
N.Y.
Dear Mr. Muir
In the "round robin" the "big tour" girls wrote you from the train on our homeward try, I told you I would let you know the effect
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a chance of meeting him - to say nothing of telling him about you - still I am living in hopes, and when those are realized you will hear from me again - that is, if you haven't forgotten me and will let me know so. For remember, that I am the girl who will never shoot or harm a birdie! No, I just love every one I see now and as I am in the country nearly every day - am growing to know them and their ways well. The country about here
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and your Alaskan playground should be transplanted in our front yard. Assuridily we could furnish you here with plain mud puddles - if not glacier mud puddles! I am very lonesome and hungry for the H.A.E.
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may be of glacial type - but certainly I wish it were more realistic - for I am sure nothing could make it more comfortable during these warm days -. And only one thing more delightful - that you
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- in fact anything connected with it always interest me, for I loved every minute of it - didn't you? Mr. Burroughs has formed a H.A.E.C.C. - or corresponding club - with me - why don't you join [it?] - the fees and dues are only letters?
With love, ever your little friend
Beth Averell
Did the Western papers show you that since Uncle Henry's return home the Wall St. men call him 'Professor"? - Can you now sympathize with him?
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Location
Rochester, N. Y.
Circa Date
[190] Sep 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Averell, Beth, "Letter from Beth Averell to John Muir, [1900] Sep 8." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4304.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4304
Resource Identifier
muir11_0347-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0347
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
