Creator
John Muir
Recipient
William Kent
Transcription
Martinez, California
January 14, 1908.
Mr William Kent.
Kentfield,
California;-
Dear Mr Kent:
I send you my warmest thanks for your noble gift to the Government of Redwood Canon [diacritic] with its magnificent groves of Sequoia to be preserved forever in all their glorious primeval beauty & grandeur. This is the finest forest & park thing done in California in many a day, & how it shines amid the mean commercialism & apathy so [destructively?] prevalent these days. You have made yourself immortal like your Sequoias, & all the best [people?] of the world will call you blessed
May we meet ere long, but whether I am to see you or not I am ever,
Faithfully your friend
John Muir
P.S. Of course I'm with you in your all embracing Mt Tamalpais park plan.
I have been away in the Mohave desert with my daughter Helen who is convalescing from pneumonia, hence delay in replying to your letter of Jan. 17.
J.M.
[John Muir]
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1908 Jan 14
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to William Kent, 1908 Jan 14." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5240.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5240
Resource Identifier
muir17_0071-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0071
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
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Owning Institution
Yale University Library Manuscripts and Archives. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
