Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Katharine Hooker
Transcription
Martinez, July 30, 1912Dear Katharine Hooker,I don't believe you half know how glad good tidings from you make me. Your interesting excursion to the edge of Mexico is so full of good things it might easily be be enlarged to a magazine article that would be more readable than anything I could write on Africa or South America. Motoring with a crowd of admiring friends and a shovel and coffee pot, drowning the engine in a small San Diego Amazon, scrambling down precipices etc must have been picturesque & exciting and not altogether dangerless. But it's well known nothing can stop you in love-work for friends.I too have been in a crooked high & low gasoline trip, from Los Angeles to San Robles, the giant forest of the Kaweah, and Yosemite, a long journey which accounts for delay in reply to your letter.A trip to Alaska or anywhere with Ellie and Maude would be according to my own heart. Fate however seldom allows hearts to have their own way. Just now from every direction
grim work is staring me hard in the face crying "'twill soon be dark," and urging concentration and haste. And Alas the advice seems reasonable.I'm in my little library den looking over notes, plotting and planning and trying to get the lonely old house into something like order though how long I'll stay in it I dinna ken, or where I'll settle and cease from wandering.Goodbye with love to all your blessed clanJohn Muir
Location
Martinez, Calif.
Date Original
1912 Jul 30
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Katharine Hooker, 1912 Jul 30." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6314.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6314
Resource Identifier
muir20_1137-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1137
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
