Creator

Cornelius B. Bradley

Recipient

John Muir

Transcription

Berkeley, August 21, 1902.

Dear Mr. Muir:

Your beautiful new -volume on Our National Parks, so long ago inscribed to me by you, has just this day come to my hands. It gives me very great pleasure to find myself so remembered by our veteran explorer and writer on these themes of Beauty and Truth. I thank you most sincerely for the kindness which touches me very nearly,just at this time when many things to conspire to make me feel that I am a very useless cumberer of the ground. And my thanks are due also to Wanda who brought the book for me, as I learn, though I was not here to receive it.
We are just back from the Old World, where we saw and did many things. But for me the most memorable was a 200-mile tramp in the Alps last summer, including no great peaks, to be sure, but a number of high passes such as the Col du Geant from Chamouni to Courmayeur in Italy, and the St. Theodule Pass from Italy into Switzerland at Zermatt. I thought often of you as I ranged over those great glaciers and snowfields.
We are all well, and most of us are at home, my son only being absent in New Haven. Mrs. Bradly sends with mine her warmest greetings to you and Mrs. Muir and the two girls,--and I hope to be able sometime before long to thank you in person.

Very truly yours,

Cornelius B. Bradley03028

Location

Berkeley [Calif.]

Date Original

1902 Aug 21

Source

Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir12_0526-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 12, Image 0526

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

Copyright Statement

Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

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

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