Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Melville B.] Anderson
Transcription
Martinez, Oct. 7, 1901.
Dear professor Anderson;
Shortly after the death of our beloved Catherine Merrill Mrs Moores requested me to contribute something to a memorial volume such as you mention in your letter. I then wrote & sent to Mrs Moores just what you are asking for your sketch - the story of our first acquaintance, her kindness when I was blind, my appreciation of her as a friend, teacher philanthropist & pure lovely noble woman - This I sent to Mrs Moores. What if anything has been done with it I don't know. Miss Graydon could probably get it for you. Mrs Muir & I are delighted with the near view of your visit with Flugel. I have long wanted
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o know Flugel, so has my wife. Come as soon as you can after this week Then I'll be at home. Looking forward with great pleasure to your visit I am ever
faithfully Yours
John Muir
"Memorials" however sincere are often sadly in need of an able editor.The Catherine Merrill biographical material so rich in scenery history art literature & big warm 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-stained praise so common nowadays, floating in passing clouds of feeling out of sight of the toiling world. So far as I know you are the only man able to write this book. Do it!
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1901 Oct 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Melville B.] Anderson, 1901 Oct 7." (1901). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4464.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4464
Resource Identifier
muir11_0877-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0877
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
