Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Harry Fielding] Reid
Transcription
(Original in possession of Prof. Harry F. Reid)
Martinez, Feb. 26, 1891.
My dear Mr. Reid:
I am glad to hear that your icy map and observations are about ready for publication. In what form will your work appear. As soon as published please send me 1\2 dozen copies with bill for same. I should also like to have copies of all your photographs. How are all your fine boys,--the chimney architects, I mean. I had hoped some of them would visit me on the way home.
Where are you going next summer? To the Yellowstone? Some grand problems and shows in your line of work await you there. Since coming home I have written nothing save a slight sketch of the Alaska glaciers for the Northern Pacific R. R. Co. My mind is buried and smothered beneath a moraine-like mass of business and small cares. Oftentimes wish I was again in my bear bag in the grand solitude, but not with York. By the way, I had a letter from York giving an account of his trip to the Coast. It was only a confused scrawl, however, without telling facts.
I don't think Captain Carroll ever made a series of soundings on regular lines. In leaving the glacier on my home trip he indicated the spot where he made the 720 feet sounding. It was considerably to the eastward of the middle of the inlet and at a distance from the ice-wall of about a hundred yards, according to his estimate. The great depth of water shows that the retreat of the ice has been comparatively rapid but regular lines of soundings would be required to give the form of the bottom. Captain Carroll may have done more in this way than I know of, and perhaps you had better write and find out. I don't know his address, but a letter sent care of Goodall, Perkins & Co., San Francisco, would reach him. I was not surprised to learn from your letter that the glacier had receded a thousand yards since the date of Wright's visit. For in looking over my 10 and 11 year old notes and skethces I disovered evidence of marked changes, though indefinite.
Be sure to let me know when you come again to this side the continent. Remember me to Mrs. Reid and your chimney boys, and with many pleasant memories of our icy camp, believe me,
Ever truly yours,
JOHN MUIR
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1891 Feb 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Harry Fielding] Reid, 1891 Feb 26." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 62.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/62
Resource Identifier
muir07_0098-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0097
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 https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
