Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Katharine] Hooker
Transcription
[2 May 1912]Martinez, WednesdayDear Mrs Hooker:I have received the N. Y. letters you forwarded. and as to your Tahoe junipers I'm sure I saw them in all their raggedy jaggedy many-angled many-elbowed glory, perhaps in the new gilded edition of the Mountains of California, published just as I was leaving N. Y. for the Amazon and which Ive not seen since.You say you're working yourself out of breath reforesting the garden etc. hope you wont mar your fine lawn with [pet?] William James' pepper blackguards. Waste not a breath on any such silvan vanity. Fortunately you now have Marian to moderate your overindustry. Tell her I rejoice in her good health and good everything. nothing finer may be seen in these frivolous flaming commercial days than a brave soul holding a straightahead way to a noble aim in spite of health wealth or the want of it.
I'm at work in my lonely den clearing away a big eight months talus of letters to get at something worthwhile.Remember me to Fred & Alice.Ever faithfully affectionately yoursJohn Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Circa Date
[1912 May 2]
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Katharine] Hooker, [1912 May 2]." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6258.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6258
Resource Identifier
muir20_0937-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0937
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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.
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
