Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass.,……………March 29……,1902.
Dear Muir:
What in the world has become of you in all these months? Have you passed on to another world or are you shut up somewhere in this one beyond the reach of pen and paper? Let me know what you are about and when you are coming east to learn something about Crataegus.
So far as The Silva is concerned it is off my hands at last, and I am just putting the finishing touches on volume xiv. The two final volumes will be out in the course of a month or two, I hope, or as soon as we can get the last engraving done in Paris. Are you getting ready for the greatest effort of your life in the way of a review of The Silva, to be published in The Atlantic? You know you promised this long ago to the publishers. Really there is no one else in the country who can do the subject justice.
Will you be ready in a year from this time to start on our trip over the Siberian Railroad? This is business. I mean to go and I want you to go with me, Leaving here in April and going via Europe you ought to be at home again in California by Christmas time. Lots of new trees to see on this trip. Here is the great opportunity of your life to prove that you are really not the quitter you have the reputation of being.
Canby has not been well, I am afraid, this winter and the cares of life are beginning to bother him. I hope, however, we shall
02974
PAGE-02ARNOLD ARBORETUM.
get off next month for a few weeks in some good Crataegus country as Crataegus is far from being exhausted,[illegible]
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.02974
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1902 Mar 29
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1902 Mar 29." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4636.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4636
Resource Identifier
muir12_0317-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0317
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
