Creator
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Kentfield Cal. Oct. 24th 1908
My dear Mr Muir
I have just returned from a month's absence in Bol[illegible]as and found your lovely book waiting for me.
You were very kind to remember your promise so promptly and I shall prize the volume with its inscription very highly. And I am looking forward to having time soon to read it. Just now must enter upon the work of reprinting my own little book and you know such
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things take much time and energy.
I've just been putting on some small additions to my houses in Bol[illegible], and I found that that took much longer than I dreamed it would.
That primitive place is dependent for its supplies upon a stage over the grade from San Rafael and a gasoline schooner running to San Francisco and having for Captain a young man of most amiable nature but afflicted with the manana [diacritic] habit. Hence no end of trials to everyone who tries to do anything
in that small remote village. I had'nt any clock to light the fire for me in the morning!
I have often recalled with pleasure our day spent with you and laughed over the account you gave of Wallace.
I hope we may have more such days.
I am sending you herewith a copy of "The Wild Flowers of California". I wish I had a new - brand new - book to offer you, but the old one with new dress is all I have and it goes with many kind wishes from
Yours Very Sincerely
Mary Elizabeth Parsons.
Location
Kentfield, Calif.
Date Original
1908 Oct 24
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Parsons, Mary Elizabeth, "Letter from Mary Elizabeth Parsons to John Muir, 1908 Oct 24." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5552.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5552
Resource Identifier
muir17_0949-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0949
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
