Creator
Marian O. Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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Some [prints?] that Mr. Gannett did not take - Some of those I was most desirous of having did not come out at all - Especially those taken from the summit of Mt. Whitney- As I don't know whether it was a bad film or bad developing that ruined them, I can't spend my math satisfactorily! We hear rumors of your being in Los Angeles this month - My Mother and Father join us girls
[1]
9-7-'02
[letterhead]
My dear Mr. Muir-
A very great pleasure came to me in the form of your book - and the pleasure was the more keen when I saw the photograph of you and read the inscription that went straight to my heart and made me long again for our party in the mountains- I have been reading the book
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with great interest - it makes me homesick for the places we have seen this summer - and I can hear your voice telling us the things we wanted so much to know as we went on our way or sat under the trees. I cannot express how much it has all been to me - Ellie came home yesterday, and since her arrival we have been talking steadily about those there
[3]
perfect weeks, going over every delightful incident - The last of my photographs have just been developed - Now I am having them printed, and hope this week to send off a package of them to you- Some of them are very clear and good, but some that are not so clear and good, but some that are not so clear I shall enclose because they are of the mountains and may be of
[5]
[letterhead]
in wishing you could stay wit us when you are here. but I suppose you have so many friends here that we could hardly expect that pleasure —
Very sincerely yours,
Marian O. Hooker
September 7- 1902.
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Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
1902 Sep 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 27.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hooker, Marian O., "Letter from Marian O. Hooker to John Muir, 1902 Sep 7." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4720.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4720
Resource Identifier
muir12_0590-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0590
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
