Creator
Olive Thorne Miller
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[3]it.)Now will you tell me where you are to be found, and if you will be at home when I get [along?] near you, and if my plan is agreeable to you, will you give me your P. O. address so that when I come into your neighborhood I can write you, and arrange a meetingI send this through the Century Company, and hope for an answervery truly, a fellowbird-lover,Olive Thorne Miller[1]628 Hancock Street,Brooklyn, N. H. Oct 2dMy dear Mr Muir:I have always been a lover of your writings and a warm sympathizer with your feeling toward nature and [her?] works,- not only the birds and [illegible]ts, but the trees and mountains of your wonderful California. I [regard?] your chapter on the water ouzel "the mountain streams's own05861
[2]darling" whom I have studied a little myself - in Colorado — as the most delightful account of a bird in our language. I have long wanted to tell you so, for sincere appreciation of one's work is welcome to all workers I am sure.And now I have another motive in writing you. I hope to go to California next spring to stay two months, just to see a little of the bird life, and I should like very much to meet you, if it can be accomplished without trouble to you, and if it would be agreeable to you.My plan is, to spend February in Arizona, near Phoenix and [illegible] in Calif. near San Diego. About the last of March or first of April to go up to San Francisco, and thence home. (This plan is not iron-clad. I may change
Location
Brooklyn, N. Y.
Circa Date
[1914] Oct 2
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Miller, Olive Thorne, "Letter from Olive Thorne Miller to John Muir, [1914 ?] Oct 2." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6656.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6656
Resource Identifier
muir22_0699-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0699
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
