Creator
Melville B. Anderson
Recipient
[John Muir]
Transcription
Menlo Park, 12 April. 1914Dear Friend, If I have shabbily failed to write, it was not thoughtlessness, but because I wanted to write too much, and also because I've [really?] had little [chance?] to communicate. I just want you to know that I think of you fondly every day; that I am pushing ahead in the spirit [illegible] the part who says that"tasks in hours of insight willedMay be in hours of gloom fulfilled!I have been in many ways too absorbed to write to any publisher yet & have little idea what arrangements can be made. I sometimes feel I must go back to Italy to finish this,- but that is feeling; I am making an honest effort to get the work into printable shape. But for this unfortunate loss of some four months of my best working time, all would have been ready by now.I am wondering how you are? How you must feel the call of the wild these glorious days! I hope you have been steadily gaining in strength.I should like to be05735
gratefully remembered to Mr and Mrs Hanna. Robert has now been sent to Algeria.Yours with the old deep regard,Melville B AndersonDr John MuirP.S. One of the cantos I read you has been since all re-written,- the other is about right.
Location
Menlo Park, Calif.
Date Original
1914 Apr 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 25 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Anderson, Melville B., "Letter from Melville B. Anderson to [John Muir], 1914 Apr 12." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6528.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6528
Resource Identifier
muir22_0273-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0273
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
