Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[J. E.] Calkins
Transcription
Martinez, March 7, 1908
Dear Mr Calkins:
I'm sorry that my sadly mixed affairs should have had so discouraging an influence on your own, & caused you to write so many long letters. Illness & business have prevented me from doing any literary work since last I saw you, [not?] if Mrs Calkins & yourself had been here all winter could I have furnished you with a single hour's work.
I can't compose when my children are dangerously sick or when I am sick or bothered by business, & even when all is tranquil none is able to help me compose, but only to take down a first rough draft from dictation & to put in type after all the real work is done. I am getting
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better & hope to get into the mountains to recuperate. I may never return to this old home to stay as I have about completed a trade that will relieve Helen & I of the Vineyards In any case she will be away a couple of years. When I'll be able for literary work I can't tell, but I may bring a piece of work to Los Angeles & try working with you in your home as you proposed, while at the same time you could take advantaqge of anything attractive to you that offered. I usually finish what I begin, but in the last four years every literary plan has been interrupted about as soon as work on it is fairly under way & no friend however kind is able to help in such troubles.
faithfully yours
John Muir
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1908 Mar 7
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [J. E.] Calkins, 1908 Mar 7." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5302.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5302
Resource Identifier
muir17_0275-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0275
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
