Creator
Mary Barr Munroe
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
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Dec 16 1908
My dear John
A Happy New Year to you. -
I wonder if you will think I am reaching too high when I tell you that I am chairman of the Forestry Committee of the Florida Federation of Womens Clubs," I know so little on the subject but I want to know everything about the
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subject that I can in connection with Florida. I led the discussion on the subject, which followed the Report, at the Meeting of the Federation in Nov and with a quotation from your book, The Mountain[s?] of Cal. and I just wanted to tell you, (for we are countrymen you know I a Glasgow girl) that my ambition has turned towards the trees I have always loved
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them, and now I am beginning to have heart aches about them. I am perfectly ignorant of the work but I want to know it, and I shall make an effort to. Give me your good wishes wont you.
Sincerely Your Friend
and loving ad[mirer?]
Mrs Kirk Munroe
Cocoanut Grove
Dade County
Florida
P.O. Box 178.
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Location
Cocoanut Grove, Fla.
Date Original
1908 Dec 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 12.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Munroe, Mary Barr, "Letter from Mary Barr Munroe to [John Muir], 1908 Dec 16." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5596.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5596
Resource Identifier
muir17_1071-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 1071
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
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Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
