Creator
Belle Breck
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
2/A California girl going to be married to a Kentucky friend of mine has the good taste to dote on your [illegible]oks. I want her to take your Yosemite back with her, and am daring enough to mail you the copy today asking that you write within[1]661 Waverly Street,Palo Alto, CaliforniaAugust 12, 1914-Dear Mr Muir;Greatness has to pay the price!You have probably forgotten a Kentuckian housplanted to California, when you met at the Canyon when you were chaperoning Mr Burroughs there. I am presuming enough to ask you a favor!05817
3/those magic words John Muir, and thereby make it precious to this generation and the next. The Gods exact such toll of those who penetrate beyond the vail!Very sincerely yours,Belle Breck.Miss Belle Breck,661 Waverly Street,Palo Alto,California -I hear from Donald Dickey in the wilds - Illness snatched him from the ordinary to the unusual - meaning really to the real things of life.M. B.
Location
Palo Alto, Calif.
Date Original
1914 Aug 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 18 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Breck, Belle, "Letter from Belle Breck to John Muir, 1914 Aug 12." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6614.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6614
Resource Identifier
muir22_0549-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0549
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
