Creator
Katharine Hooker
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
[4]In another week we shall go to San Francisco and try to get the little shelter there in order, and a week after that Fred and Alice will probably go east for three months.Im affectionately yoursKatharine Hooker[1][letterhead]May 4My dear friendBoth your letters have come and if I get all your affectionate wishes for me bring why I shall have much more than I deserve!I'm not proud of being so busy, on09999
[2]the contrary I am rather ashamed of it. One might so order one's life so that serenity would reign--unless there were a grief that destroyed peace.I felt it was like you to buy that old home so full of memories. But it is full of emptiness now and I do not see how you[3]can make it sufficiently inhabited to keep loneliness away.Marian and I have been hoping you would get through the press of that accumulation of letters and come back to this other home.Marian says, "Tell him I am very glad he is safely back and I look forward with pleasure to seeing him."
Location
Los Angeles
Circa Date
[1912] May 4
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.4 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hooker, Katharine, "Letter from Katharine Hooker to [John Muir], [1912 ?] May 4." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6260.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6260
Resource Identifier
muir20_0947-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0947
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
