Creator
Mildred Price Fenhagen
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]sings at the heart of it."Believe meEver sincerely yours,Mildred Price FenhagenaddressMrs. G. Corner Fenhagenc/o Gov. Architect OfficeManilaPhilippine Is.[1]November twenty-seventhManila, P.I.[letterhead]Dear Mr. Muir,Your "Three Experiences in the Yosemite" I came across but recently. I enjoyed them particularly for they refreshed memories of the loveliest summer I have ever spent. And you made that summer, in which I needed rest and [could?] breathe deeply of the calm and beauty of the National Park which surrounded me, possible, as you have made05306
[2]it possible for so many others who have longed for the great out-of doors in nature's vastness but who have had no way of experiencing it.And now I want to remind you of a promise made long ago. Later you added the condition that it was provided I go after it, but here I am in the far away Philippines with a husband and a baby to care for, so how can I?
[3]Won't you send me your picture. I should so much like to have it?I am sending you a booklet of Wright Mabie which I hope you have not already read. You must be of like disposition for as he puts it you have had "the vision of the great world as it lies in the imagination, and heard that deep and incommunicable music which
Location
Manila [Philippine Is.]
Circa Date
[1912] Nov 27
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 27 cm.
Recommended Citation
Fenhagen, Mildred Price, "Letter from Mildred Price Fenhagen to John Muir, [1912 ?] Nov 27." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6401.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6401
Resource Identifier
muir20_1447-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 1447
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
