Creator
Mary Frances
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]trip." My nephew William is also going with me. How I wish you would go, too.Hoping to see you soon, I am, with sincere affection,Your friendMary Frances Kellogg.[1]R.F.D. 392, PasadenaApril 14, 1914Dear Mr. Muir:I very much hope you will be with us on the occasion of your birthday celebration at Muir Lodge April 18-19. It has been so long since you have been in Pasadena.My sister-in-law had hoped to ask you to stay with them when next you came to Pasadena, but they are all in05737,
[2]great trouble now. Mr. Scripps is lying dangerously ill with pneumonia.I wish, if you do come, you would agree to speak to the Pasadena High School students in assembly some day. It would be a great event to them.One of the English teachers is using your "Boyhood" book as a text for one of her classes. She is planning[3]with the greatest pleasure to go with me to the celebration. There are a number of other High School teachers who declare they will be willing to crawl on hands and knees to see you, at Muir Lodge, if their powers of walking fail them on the way.At last I am going to see the Yosemite, for I have decided to go on the "big
Location
Pasadena [Calif.]
Date Original
1914 Apr 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 16.5 x 26 cm.
Recommended Citation
Frances, Mary, "Letter from Mary Frances to John Muir, 1914 Apr 14." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6530.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6530
Resource Identifier
muir22_0279-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0279
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
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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
