Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Prof and Mrs Phelps
Transcription
[Page 1]
Dear Prof + Mrs. Phelps
Many thanks for the photographs. I shall always look back with great pleasure to the memorable days pair of you glad days under your care so full of glad loyalty and to my visit in your beautiful bookful loveful home in Yale enthusiasm succeed to filled all your town influencing everybody and everything like climate. Never before have I seen or felt anything just like it. The glowing of the alumni overflowing all friends was especially exhilarating and telling. Surely nothing even in the golden coronation glory over the [ ] could surpass it.
No wonder I’m proud of the honor Yale honors I got; I am enjoying the glow I’m now hiding in, etc before leaving for 24 or a new academic religion.
"[Page 2]
Remember me to Prof. P. Stokes, and Pres Hadley.
Ever faithful, Yalefully, gratefully yrs, J.M.
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Location
[place unknown]
Circa Date
[1911]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "1911 undated JM to Prof and Mrs Phelps p1" (1911). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4884.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4884
Resource Identifier
muir00_184-let
File Identifier
MSS 048 John Muir Papers
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 http://www.pacific.edu/Library/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
