Creator
Harriett M. Ashley
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[1]June 28 1911[letterhead]Dear Mr. Muir,Thank you very much for the book you say you have sent me. but it is not you and will not take your place at all, glad as I shall be to have it. Why can you not cut your visit a little short at Uncle John Burroughs, and come up see us for one night, only one night and I will try to be satisfied. We left05057
[3]only ask for a few hours--just a very few--of your time, so I can grasp your hand once more and have my husband and girls welcome you at our house.I will not worry you any more, but try to think of a way; I am sure you can make your Roxbury trip a few hours shorter if necessary.With best love and wishes I amHarriett M. Ashley(Mrs. M. C.)MiddletownNew YorkJune 28 - 11[2]home Sunday to come here to a meeting of the American Institute of Pathology, but are going to start home this P. M. and will reach there to-morrow P. M. some time--we came by auto, three Dr's and myself--and I wish very much you could come and visit us for Sunday, and we would show you some of our restful, beautiful mountains, tho: they have not the heighth and grangeur of your western mts: they are very beautiful.You are not in any great hurry to get to South America are you? That country will keep, and we--all of those who learned to love you on a never to be forgotten trip in the west
Location
Middletown, N. Y.
Date Original
1911 Jun 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Ashley, Harriett M., "Letter from Harriett M. Ashley to John Muir, 1911 Jun 28." (1911). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6121.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6121
Resource Identifier
muir20_0430-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0430
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
