Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Thomas Hanna]
Transcription
Los Angeles, Cal., March 14, 1911.325 West Adams Street.Dear Tom:-Please find enclosed five dollars for a supply of "moons" for my two blessed grand-boys. Give them generous lots of those beloved "moons," but not enough to be-cloud or eclipse their little noddles or stomachs.Helen is still in the hospital. She has had a slight attack of pleurisy but is rapidly recovering. The wondrous boy has been well all the time and is thriving amazingly, growing every day grander in solemn, dignified, buddha-like grace.They expect to get back to their beloved desert home in a few days from now. Buel is going to run down in his auto to San Bernardino and from there ship it on the cars to Daggett, for the carriage road up the canyon pass is completely washed out and will take perhaps all summer to mend. After shipping his car he will return here on the train, and then go with Helen and the baby direct to Daggett.In talking about his visit to Martinez Buel seems to be very much pleased and grateful for the help you gave him in respect to the complicated business that he now has to attend to. Doubtless he will write to you himself.The trains are all running very slowly on account of soft roadbed. That is, those that are able to run at all. Our train, the owl, reached Los Angeles three hours late.The weather now is delightful down here, and I suppose it is also getting dry and pleasant up your way too. We can appreciate calm sunshine after such whirlwind black storms as we have been having04976
for so long.Tell Wanda not to forget to have Fong carry out the collected rain water in the garret and see that the doors and windows are all kept closed.All is serene down here and I am hack in the garret and hard at work as ever. I will probably be again with you about the middle of next month.The Roosevelt dinner and lecture comes off on the 21st. It will no doubt be a pleasant affair, though I fear I will have but very little time to talk with Mr. Roosevelt on the subject of the preservation of national Parks, etc.I have received a letter from Mr. Edward Coffin, in which he states he has sent me a copy of the "Camp-fire Club Year Book." I wish you would have this forwarded, and also all of the proof sheets of, "My First Summer in the Sierra. I have received two or three lots forwarded since my arrival.Be sure to tell the Postmaster that my address here, C/o J. D. Hooker, is not 324 West Adams st., as the last of the forwarded letters were addressed, but is 325 West Adams Street. Be sure to have this number corrected.Ever faithfully yours,John Muir04976
Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
1911 Mar 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Thomas Hanna], 1911 Mar 14." (1911). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6029.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6029
Resource Identifier
muir20_0165-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0165
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
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
