Creator
John Muir
Recipient
J. E. Calkins
Transcription
[Page 1]
Mr. J. E. Calkins
Davenport, Iowa
My dr Sir,
I am very wary that I have missed a letter from you good lover of Gods wildness now far from common akin in those days of nature books nature study and animal [ ] [ ] I sorely regret missing you. When your kind letter [ ] was written March 29 I was in Australia and did not get home until the end of June and it was some days later before I found your letter in the big [ ] of books, pamphlets [ ] [ ] [ ] But you must come again. Editors should take a good living rest every year a complete rest especially after long continuous overwork has resulted in nervous prostration. None of your observations on the country climates conditions of living etc in long letters to the Democrat, agree [ ] overwork from prostration particularly in those [] come with your wife to the Sierra and rest under a Sequoia or sugar pine.
When real (unreal) estate agents make one dizzy with their confounded “mean temperature” come to my house and make it your headquarters and home & I’ll show you it is done. If you come by the Santa Fe get off
"[Page 2]
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I have already met Mayor Chittendon, Mr R B Marshall & Mr. Frank Board yesterday in S F and considered with the revision of the Yo Park boundaries. In gen I am opposed to changes that would diminish the area of the park. It should rather be increased. A small portion of the S. W. cor where a few mines are located might be cut off provided this would not result in making easy and sure the destruction of the forest. on patented lands there about if practicable the private claims in the sugar pines region should be taken up by government at fair price, or condemned."
Location
Davenport, Iowa
Circa Date
[1904]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 18 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Undated JM to J E Calkins p1" (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4895.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4895
Resource Identifier
muir00_204-let
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
