Creator
Jennie Williams
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]your photographer. [illegible] I want for myself but I also want to place one of you & John Burroughs in our College Library here in our Mt. State.I am also going to place your life story there- I have been giving it to young men. [1]Feb. 11 — '14.Hon. John Muir,Dear Sir.Since the year 190[7?], when I saw and heard much of you during our Sierra Club encampment in the Yosemite Reservation I've wanted a good05704
[2]picture of you - I do not know where to get it, nor the price. I have only little "codaks" which are not all I want. I'd have written long ago but I dreaded to bother you.I want a good one, and one of you and John Burrough together.[3]I saw one once but the owner knew not where to get another - (no name on it) I'd be delighted to have your autograph on one but if not convenient for you please then give me the address of
[5]2.We are sorry about Hetch-Hetchy Valley. I did my best after you first sent me literature regarding the plot against it. (I was then a member of Sierra Club)I want to thank you for your helpfulness to me05704
[6]and to my family through me and through the reading of your Life story. I am glad you came to live in U.S. I tho't often of your useful blessed life as I drove through Scotland 1910. May you live long yet to bless us all. (Mrs) Jennie Williams,Buckhammon,W. Va.
[7]Where can I get all of your books?Thank youJ. W.05704
Location
Buckinghammon, W. Va.
Date Original
1914 Feb 11
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 25.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Williams, Jennie, "Letter from Jennie Williams to John Muir, 1914 Feb 11." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6498.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6498
Resource Identifier
muir22_0165-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0165
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
5 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
