Creator
Katharine Hooker
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]the week I think.Affectionately yoursKatharineDon't you think you had better call me Katharine instead of Mrs Hooker?426[1][letterhead]Sept 26My dear Mr MuirThere is quite a pile of manuscript of yours in the "Palace-Garret" as you used to call it. I judge it is all a part of the book I like to think you wrote there. "My Boyhood and Youth."Shall I send it to you by package post?05279
[2]I am working slowly through the dismantling of this old house, and now it is almost empty, swept, but not garnished.I sit in the room you used to have and am sometimes a little sad that I shall probably never inhabit again The garden looks very beautiful.[3]But a sweet lovely woman is going to live in it. that Mrs. Jones (the Nevada senator's wife) whose bonnet you admired because it was a little bed of flowers which seemed to sprout out of the whole surface.Marian is still in New York, Ellie is here with me. I shall stay here till the end of
Location
Los Angeles
Circa Date
[1912] Sep 26
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 23 cm.
Recommended Citation
Hooker, Katharine, "Letter from Katharine Hooker to John Muir, [1912 ?] Sep 26." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6369.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6369
Resource Identifier
muir20_1343-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1343
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
