Creator
Katharine [Merrill] Graydon
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]
You will understand my repeating this request, will you not? I only have my heart set upon your seeing and being seen by this recent friend of mine.
Come early before a possibility of being lost in Berkeley business.
Your friend
Katherine Graydon
Sept. 10. 1896.
[in margin: 959]
Sept. 10, 1896
2530 College Ave.
Berkeley
Dear Mr. Muir,
[1]
I have just written you a note to Martinez, and now it occurs to me that you may be in the city a few days and so I send this in Mr. Keith's care.
On Saturday eve. next, (12th) I give a company of University people to meet Mrs. [Fowler?] and I bidtoher "au revoir."
This Lady of N.Y. City in a
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[2]
friend of your friends, Mr. & Mrs. Johnson, and does not see how he can return next Tuesday without seeing "Mr. John Muir," which inability so for had been the one disappointment of her California visit.
She is a very rare woman, men, an [Carob?][Bougereau], the Duke of Devonshire, various Oxford professional have stepped far out of their way to do her honor. Indeed, you will be repaid for the effort of meeting her,
[3]
And this is the last opportunity. Do come & let nothing prevent. Come just as you are, and Mrs. Bettis & I will be pleased to have you our guest for the night. I expect the Andersons also to spend the night.
Indeed, I want you far more than I can express in this written forum. Don't disappoint me, I beg you.
Mrs. Fowler knows Prof. Sargent and somebody else of your Commission.
Location
Berkley [Calif.]
Date Original
1896 Sep 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Graydon, Katharine Merrill, "Letter from Katharine [Merrill] Graydon to John Muir, 1896 Sep 10." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 828.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/828
Resource Identifier
muir09_0386-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0386
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
