Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Anna R.] Dickey

Transcription

[Original letter returned to Mrs. Anna R. Dickey]Martinez, Oct. 30, 1912.Dear Mrs. Dickey:Your letter just received and I heartily rejoice with you and Donald that you have enjoyed a serene inspiring summer in the peaceful northern woods fathering health and strength to help the good along in whatever ways you are destined to travel. How unlike the peace of the woods and streams is the war of the nations over the seas and beside us in Mexico, and the noisy bitter political battles in our own favored country!And the killing of Presidents -- is this never to end? The very best loved and the most useful of all the world's rulers seem always to be the ones selected for murder. That the assassin's bullet was turned aside from Roosevelt's heart all good people here and everywhere will thank God and rejoice.I attended the Sec. of the Interior's conference in Yosemite on National Park affairs and had good opportunities to explain Hetch Hetchy questions, etc., and last Friday I helped to finish the Sierra Club's reply to the San Francisco engineer's mass of special pleading. Now I'm trying to hide and settle down to my own natural work.I'm glad you like the pictures. You are welcome to as many more copies as you like of what's left. With love to Donald, admiring his brave heart, I am,Ever faithfully your friend,JOHN MUIRThe first chapter of "My Boyhood", somewhat abridged, is in the November Atlantic.[Envelope addressed Mrs. Anna R. Dickey, San Rafael Heights, Pasadena, California].05291

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1912 Oct 30

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir20_1383-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 20, Image 1383

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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