Creator
L[oulu] P[erry] O[sborn]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[2]Hetch-Hetchy. It is simply perfectly exquisite! and so beautiful, and climaxically!! So convincing, that here! Sign this covenant with me by a letter to me addressed Glacier P:O Montana[Aug, 1910] [1]8500 ft above sea.In camp. just under Flat Tops.38 miles above Lake McDonald.My dear friend.I have just finished reading yr chapter on the 05139
[2]saying "I will", and it is that you send this chapter [just?] as I have it, down to Taft, and, it will clinch the question, now is the time for this great putting of the subject as you have done it in this chapter, to be used, and please do this, Send this typed chapter, and the Hetch-Hetchy will remain a glory, and a joy forever-!! I await yr
[4]place it is! Tell [illegible]ia about it. They hurry me so good by for the present. Let me have yr South American address. Better still Do not go, but welcome us home to Castle Rock.A[illegible] yr friend L.P.O.[in margin: [illegible] H.H.N.G.][3]reply- "I will" or better. "I have".We long for you here. We camped yesterday at [Avalanch?] Basin Lake. What a superb05139
Location
Lake McDonald [Mont.]
Circa Date
[1910 Aug]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Osborn, Loulu Perry, "Letter from L[oulu] P[erry] O[sborn] to John Muir, [ca. 1910 Aug] ." (1910). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5138.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5138
Resource Identifier
muir19_0800-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 0800
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
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
