Creator

John Muir

Creator

[John Muir]

Recipient

Houghton Mifflin Co.

Transcription

449AUG 26 1910 Martinez, California,August 15, 1910.Houghton Mifflin Company,4 Park Street,Boston. Mass. Dear Sirs:Today I am sending by Wells Fargo Express,a few blurred odds and ends of. sketches, the culls of a hundred or more made in my first Sierra Summer. Some of them may be of use to your Artists. Also a few good photographs, which, with others that Mr. Gleason can furnish, will, I suppose answer well enough.Please return them after you are through with them.

[2]Did you ever meet David Stan Jordan this summer he made us a short visit & went away I think with his ideas of Mr. Harriman much modified & improved. He looked upon him as an intellectual machine or [promoter?] with all the [illegible] left out - I wish he might [illegible] [illegible]. We are looking forward to you coming this autumn & the Osborns & ourselves have a

Location

Martinez, Calif.

Date Original

1910 Aug 15

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir19_0721-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 19, Image 0721

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

The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

The Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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

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