Creator
C. S. Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
January 30, 1895
My dear Mr. Muir:
Do you remember you told me that when you were in the Kerne River country you got into clumps of White Oaks that were so thick that you had difficulty in prenetrating them? The Oak must have been Quercus Breweri and I wish you would tell me where this place was, at what elevation, etc., and how high the bushes grew. If I remember what you said correctly they were not less thatn twenty feel tall. Any information about the locality of the bushes I shall be glad of.
I am reading your Sierra book and I want to tell you that I have never read descriptions of trees that so pictured them to the mind as yours do. No fellow who was at once a poet, naturalist, and a keen observer has to my knowledge ever written about trees before and I believe you are the man who ought to have written a Silva of North America. Your book is one of the great productions of its kind and I congratulate you on it.
Faithfully yours,
c. S. Sargent
John Muir, Esq.,
Martinex, Cala.
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Date Original
1895-01-30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C. S. Sargent to John Muir, 1895 Jan 30." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6980.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6980
Resource Identifier
muir08_0777-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0777
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
