Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
Transcription
[First draft of letter, in note-book # 59] (7)
Martinez, Sept. 6 [1901].
Dear Mr. Sargent:
Soon after the death of our friend Catherine Merrill, Mrs. Moores requested me to contribute to a memorial volume. This I did, sketching the story of our acquaintance and correspondence - her sympathy and kindness when I was blind, her influence as a teacher and as a woman, her rare personality, etc., etc, etc. This I sent - just what you want for your sketch - the story of our acquaintance. Her kindness when I was blind, her influence, my appreciation of her as a friend, teacher, philanthropist, and pure, lovely, noble woman. Memorials, however hearty and sincere, are often sadly in need of an able editor. This Catherine Merrill biographical material, so rich in history, in sunny, all embracing sympathy, written as it should be written would be literature, a cheering, charming, helpful book for everybody, instead of one of those colorless monotones of lamentation and strained praise so common nowadays, floating in clouds of passing feeling, out of sight and touch of all save her personal world.
As far as I know you are the only man able to write this book.
[John Muir]
02890
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1901 Sep 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1901 Sep 6." (1901). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4455.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4455
Resource Identifier
muir11_0853-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0853
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/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
