Creator
Ellery Sedgwick
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1][letterhead]St Francis Hotel San Francisco.April 22nd 1909John Muir Esqr.My dear Sir:I do not like to leave the coast without writing you a line to say how keen is my regret at not having the pleasure of seeing you. I am to take up Mr. Perry's work on the Atlantic when he leaves us this summer and in the mean time am picking up a useful kind of04481[2]Education wandering about the country. You are so old a friend of the magazine that I wanted very much to have a chat with you and if possible to [secure?] your help in making it continually better; but [from?] Mr. Lummis and others I hear that you are pl[illegible]ging into the Yosemite for a stay of unknown length.Hoping that some day I may [3]have the good fortune to meet you I remain,Yours very trulyEllery Sedgwick.John Muir Esqr.
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1909 Apr 22
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sedgwick, Ellery, "Letter from Ellery Sedgwick to John Muir, 1909 Apr 22." (1909). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5746.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5746
Resource Identifier
muir18_0386-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 18, Image 0386
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
