Creator
Henry G. Bryant
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
American Alpine Club
COUNCILORS
PROF. JOSEPH N. LECONITE
REV. HARRY P. NICHOLS
PROF. HARRY FIELDING REID
PROF. A. LAWRENCE ROTCH
PRESIDENT
PROF. JOHN MUIR
VICE-PRESIDENTS
PROF. CHARLES E. FAY
MR. HARRINGTON PUTNAM
SECRETARY
MR. HENRY G. BRYANT
806 LAND TITLE BUILDING
PHILADELPHIA
TREASURER
MR. GEORGE VAUX, JR.
404FRANKLIN BANK BUILDING
PHILADELPHIA
PHILADELPHIA..... Decemher 14th,___190 8.
Professor John Muir,
Martinez, California.
My dear Professor Muir:
The presence of Professor Penck of Berlin and many mountaineers and scholars who will be attending the meeting of this A.A.A.S. in Baltimore, bids fair to make the coming meeting of the American Alpine Club a notable one in the quality and number of participants. In letters received from the members of the Council of the Club, there is voiced a universal desire to have you attend and preside at the meeting and I have been asked to communicate to you their views on the subject. I know it is a long journey to make to attend one meeting and dinner, but we have been hoping that this call and other interests in the East might be strong enough to induce you to undertake the journey. Realizing the considerable outlay involved, the Board has authorized the payment of the sum of Fifty Dollars towards paying your traveling expenses in case you come East.
In case you decide to attend the meeting, will you be kind enough to telegraph me to that effect in order that I may include the information in the final notices which go to the printer on Dec. 21st? If I
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do not hear from you by the date mentioned, I will regretfully assume that you will not he able to attend. I need scarcely add, that these meetings of our little brotherhood-where we look each other in the face and talk informally-are the chief reasons for our existence and always inspire new devotion to the mountains.
Hoping to hear favorably from you, I am,
Sincerely yours,
[illegible]Secretary .
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Location
Philadelphia [Pa.]
Date Original
1908 Dec 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Bryant, Henry G., "Letter from Henry G. Bryant to John Muir, 1908 Dec 14." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5593.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5593
Resource Identifier
muir17_1063-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 1063
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
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Copyright Statement
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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
