Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Frank Weir]
Transcription
[First draft of letter, in note-book #59] (79)
Martinez, Jan. 31 [1901].
Captain Frank Weir,
Dear Sir:
Many thanks for permission to use the admirable illustrations of your report on the Sequoia parks. Grand telling tree pictures are very hard to get even from the most accessible forests (much more from those of the Kaweah). Your report recalls a long,rough,lonely three mos. trip I made 25 years [ago] from Yo[semite] along the Sequoia belt to its southern extremity in the head of Deer Creek, tracing the boundaries of all the groves and forests and the gaps between them. It was then that I first described and named the Giant Forest of the Kaweah and made pencil sketches of those beautiful Sequoia bogs and meadows. Some four years ago I took Prof. Sargent and General Abbot up to the Middle Kern, but they were [in] too great a hurry to visit the Giant Forest. All my friend. G. Pinohot's forest works I have, also the Hon. Sec.'s report to which you refer, and indeed nearly all of the Government reports on forest matters. And I have innumerable photographs of forest views, but really good telling tree pictures are rare.
Will it be possible for me to obtain copies of the photos from which your illustrations were made?
[John Muir]
02890
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1901 Jan 31
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Frank Weir], 1901 Jan 31." (1901). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4385.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4385
Resource Identifier
muir11_0591-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0591
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
