Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Asa Gray
Transcription
Martinez, Cal. Jan 2d, 1882.
My dear Asa Gray
I cordially wish you a happy new year, & rejoice with your many friends that you are once more in your own country & still strong to work & enjoy. Parry was here a short time ago & we greatly enjoyed his visit. He reported Dr Engelman unwell & likely to seek California next season for health as well
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I shall fondly hope that you also will come again to this side the big botanic garden for another ramble among the trees & to delight your friends. The [Bidwells?] among others would be beside themselves with joy should you bless them with another visit Mr & Mrs Parry were up at their big kingdom ranch & they were here too among the vines & so was General Bidwell He is erect & massive as ever. I have not yet heard from those Arctic plants & sent you by express two months ago. Have you received them?
Hoping you will long be spared to bless the people & the plants
I am ever your admiring friend John Muir.
Location
Martinez, Cal.
Date Original
1882 Jan 2
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Asa Gray, 1882 Jan 2." (1882). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 690.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/690
Resource Identifier
muir04_0773-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0772
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
)Owning Institution
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
