Creator
[Joseph Le Conte]
Recipient
[Henry Ward Beecher]
Transcription
My Dear Sir-
I received you very kind letter after you had left. Otherwise I should have [illegible] at once. I suppose you will shortly be in Brooklyn & I [illegible] [illegible] I sincerely thank you for your kind [expression?] concerning the [illegible] I sent you and especially for the suggestion concerning a popular work on Evol'n. I have often thought of this & will now still more seriously. If I did undertake it it would consist of 3 parts--1 What is Evol'n in its wide and its narrow sense--2 What are the evidences of its truth--3--What are its bearings on Christian beliefs The only difficulty is the [illegible] of the [illegible] & the pressure of other duties. I am now engaged on a school [textbook?] of Geology in which of course Evol'n will appear all through, but not [illegible]
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MR. BEECHER’S ROUTE,
SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, 1883.
[printed trip itinerary]
J. B. POND, MANAGER,
EVERETT HOUSE, NEW YORK
Location
[Berkeley, Calif. ?]
Circa Date
[1883 Sep]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
LeConte, Joseph, "Letter from [Joseph Le Conte] to [Henry Ward Beecher], [ca.1883 Sep]." (1883). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 759.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/759
Resource Identifier
muir04_1097-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 1096
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
