Creator
Charles Walter Carruth
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
Oakland, Cal. June 19 1893
Dear Mr. Muir:
Your very kind note acknowledging receipt of the little booklet of verse which I sent you last winter I am ashamed to say I never answered. I will now say that the feeble sonnet therein [illegible] to you is but a [illegible] voicing of the admiration and regard that I feel for John Muir, the [illegible] and friend of Nature, whose only fault form a literary point of view is that he writes all too little. I have mailed you a number of sonnets written since the booklet was printed. If you have
been so kind as to preserve the booklet you will honor me by placing these additional leaves therein. Although I have reached to age of 38 years, I had written nothing until the past autumn, because, while I was a great lover of poetry, and have my head filled with the choice productions of others, I never found voice for my fancies. Do not really know what started me to writing after the ma[illegible] of me had begun to whiter. Should I have the presumption to come up to Martinez for the purpose of making your acquaintance, sometime, I trust that you would not set the dogs upon
Your sincere admirer
Charles Walter Carruth
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Location
Oakland, Cal
Date Original
1893 Jun 19
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Carruth, Charles Walter, "Letter from Charles Walter Carruth to John Muir, 1893 Jun 19." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 932.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/932
Resource Identifier
muir07_1096-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, 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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
