Creator
G[eorge] Engelmann
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Geo. Englemann, M. D. 3003 Locust Street.
St. Louis, Mo., April 11 1881
My dear Mr Muir
Let me congratulate you and Mrs Muir on the happy event, of which a kind note from Dr Strentzel has just informed me. Well, when this reaches your, the matter is already old and congratulations are out of date; what was a baby then, is now a young lady, she can at least say Papa and Mama. Who ever has once been roaming about in California wants to be there again, and who has seen [illegible] and [illegible] [harken after?] spring and fresh delightful vegetation. But whether it will come to that? I do not know yet! But as I certainly shall not (if at all) be there in season for the flowering of the Oaks I would ask you to get for me at least the two species which grow close about you. One is [illegible] cobata, which grows as you
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[letterhead] Knows, [above?] the stables on the Creek; the other is [illegible] [Douglasis?], the blue mountain oak, on the bare hills above you a few specimens of each of them in flower and again a week or two later when the leaves are not yet fully grown (showing the f[illegible] flowers or [young acorns?]) would be very desirable. I would say that I found a few specimens of the Cobata also on the hills, but Douglasis is readily distinguished by the smoother, whiter bark, the [smaller and less color leaves?]; it seems to be the [illegible] tree on the [illegible] hills. And now my best wishes for mother and daughter and all of you
Yours truly [G Engelmann?]
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Location
St. Louis, Mo.
Date Original
1881 Apr 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Engelmann, George, "Letter from G[eorge] Engelmann to John Muir, 1881 Apr 11." (1881). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 628.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/628
Resource Identifier
muir04_0503-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0502
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
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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
