Creator
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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may someday be my good fortune to meet it on its native meadow.
I enjoyed the mountain flowers exceedingly at Deer Park.
I think we are specially favored in being able pass on up into the full spring tide of the mountains, as soon as our lowland blossoms have fled.
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Dec 10 1896
My Dear Mr. Muir.
I thank you very much for your kind letter.
I fear I have made you a good deal of trouble about the little Arctic Daisy. I hope it will soon be described and properly determined as it surely must deserve recognition
And I also hope it
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and [then?] to find the [Compositae?] marshalling their cohorts in autumn splendor, on our return.
There is really but a very small portion of our year which is blossomless, so lavish is Nature in this wonderful land.
Thanking you again, most sincerely.
I am
Very gratefully and cordially
Mary Elizabeth Parsons
San Rafael, Cal. Dec. 10th 1896.
Location
San Rafael, Cal
Date Original
1896 Dec 10
Source
Original letter dimensions: 14 x 18.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Parsons, Mary Elizabeth, "Letter from Mary Elizabeth Parsons to John Muir, 1896 Dec 10." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 875.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/875
Resource Identifier
muir09_0530-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0530
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
