Creator
Henry Ward Beecher
Recipient
Joseph Le Conte
Transcription
BROOKLYN, NY. 124 COLUMBIA HEIGHTS. Sept 8, 1883. S.F.Joseph SelonteDear SirMr Day handed me several pamphlets containing [Toms views?] upon various aspects of Evolution for which I desire to thank you heartily. They are just what I needed & I shall not content myself with reading, but shall study them. I had already your geology & am more than glad to09151
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secure these additional works – I enclose my [Route?] for several weeks to come, & you will see that I shall have leisure in the care for much reading & meditation Now, will you allow me to present for your consideration the preporation of a popular manual on Evolution – [illegible] [just the month?] after general reading public, and also for Acadamies & higher [illegible] [of learning?]The want is great, & every day growing greater – No one can adequately perform the task who is not at once a trained scientist & a [fine?] Christian Such a work would have a large circulation & I have no doubt, that advantaging terms could be made with eminent publishers. With sincere appreciation of the work you have done & are doing in the [course of sound learning?],I am, dear sir, very truly yours Henry Ward [Beecher?]
Location
Brooklyn, N.Y.[San Francisco postmark]
Date Original
1883 Sep 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 24.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Beecher, Henry Ward, "Letter from Henry Ward Beecher to Joseph Le Conte, 1883 Sep 8." (1883). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 758.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/758
Resource Identifier
muir04_1093-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 1092
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
