Creator
Beth Averell
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[2]
has been a joyous one - for in view has always been the thought if your beautiful inscription. I fear you will never know how much that means to me - except that "where your treasure is there will your heart be also". And yesterday came your letter and little pamphlet containing the first
[1]
September 26
325 East Avenue
Rochester
My dear Mr. Muir
Since Saturday last I have kept close to your delightful "Mountains of California" and have travelled with you over their glaciers, through their forests and along their streams. And each step towards these [summits?]
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accounts of you and your doings that have reached me since we said "auf widersehn" in Portlan - for as yet "the rhyming tail" has not wagged in my direction. But Mary wrote me she would keep it [still?] for me until I reached Arden, and so I am hurrying down there the end of this week. In New York at Uncle Henry's home we are to have a grand celebration of the H.A.E.C. on Dewey Day. You see the Eastern half must try to keep up with the Western, for from your letter I should judge you had meetings nearly every day. Some day I hope we can combine forces - but until then the corresponding club must do its very best to bring that about. From Dr. [illegible]
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so you see you are ever with us in thoughts and in all happy memories of the H.A.E. Yes, Dr. Converse has returned from the West but whether he lost track of the deer and goals I do no know. Doubtless he gained much else - though his successful trip would I fear be to you a most unsuccessful one. But if he learned
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and the Captain I learned of their visit with you, of how you bumped into memories icebergs and listened to the hum of glacier artillery again. Last evening Mr. Fernow spent with us - and when speaking of the recent Alaska earthquake he said: "Why, where is Mr. Muir - some other force besides glaciers must have been at work"!
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to know the animals as I have the birds certainly he would never kill anymore - no, not even for science! Of course, I am anxious to see you and your Big Two but suppose I must wait until we near the Pacific Coast again - and who knows when that will be? But think of me still as a Big One of the Big Four - and with love
Ever your friend
Beth Averell.
Location
Rochester [N. Y.]
Circa Date
[190] Sep 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Averell, Beth, "Letter from Beth Averell to John Muir, [1900 ?] Sep 26." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4308.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4308
Resource Identifier
muir11_0363-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0363
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
