Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Katharine Hooker
Transcription
Martinez Oct. 30, 1912Dear friend Katharine HookerI saw Marian last Saturday just for a moment as we stepped from a train at the Palo Alto station. I was startled & surprised as if she had suddenly appeared on one of my Amazon vine-tangled jungle walks. Strange that we had been in adjacent cars without knowing it, as if in the eternal unfitness of these contrary heart things neither long or short journeys together were ever to be allowed us. She was on a visit to a cousin & I to the Kelloggs, & as we all met in a bunch on the station platform I had no chance to speak to her. Nevertheless the glimpse I got of her face assured me that she was not hurt by overwork as I had feared but on the joyful contrary was in perfect health buoyant & bright as Aurora in springtime.At the Yosemite Park conference I had many opportunities to explain Hetch Hetchy & park affairs in general. Last Friday put the last touches on the Sierra Club's reply to engineer Freeman's one-sided plea for Hetch Hetchy destruction and now I'm busy with my own natural
work. But shut yourself up as you may there is no perfect peace anywhere. How unlike the peace of the wilderness however full of savage beasts is the war of the nations over the seas & beside us in Mexico. And is the killing of Presidents never to cease? The best loved & most useful of all the world's rulers seem always to be the ones selected for murder. That the assassin's bullet was providentialy turned aside form Roosevelt's heart all the good everywhere wil thank God & rejoice.Love to all who love youEver affectionately yours near or far in the peace or warJohn Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1912 Oct 30
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Katharine Hooker, 1912 Oct 30." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6385.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6385
Resource Identifier
muir20_1385-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1385
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
