Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Horatio N.] Rust
Transcription
Martinez Oct 2, 1894
My dear Mr Rust,
I am glad to hear from you & recall our pleasant evening at Col Sellers. I had a very good time in Europe, saw the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland & the principal fiords of Norway in a general way. Also Old Scotland & Ireland & England, meeting many interesting people etc etc
Thanks for your kind "perpetual invitation to visit you & do not fail to find me when you come
to San Francisco, Martinez is only an hour & a half from there.
Mrs. Sellers has been very sick, in bed a month as I learned by a letter received a day or two ago, but is now well & goes to the Wis Clubhouse.
I do not remember noticing any superficial traces of ice-action on the San Gabriel rocks, such as polished or scratched surfaces; but of the more enduring traces--drift, glacial forms of the rocks, & general glacial sculpture. those I saw everywhere.
As to that lily I think it was the Humboldt, but it is so long since I saw it
and as I have no specimen I hesitate to speak positively The Humboldt however is so well marked in its character you can have no difficulty in identifying it from those growing in Mrs. Conger's garden from bulbs I brought down. Or you can run up Eaton Creek & near its head find them growing in glorious abundance.
I have been busy this summer with a book which will be out this month published by the Century Co.
I dont believe there is a glacier on Greyback however small
With cordial regards and pleasant memories
I am yours truly
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-10-02
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Horatio N.] Rust, 1894 Oct 2." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6890.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6890
Resource Identifier
muir08_0417-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0417
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
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
