Title:
Letter from John Muir to C. Hart Merriam, 1900 Oct 23.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
C. Hart Merriam
Date:
1900 Oct 23
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0402-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
To Dr. C. Hart Merriam Martinez, Cal. Oct. 23, 1900. My dear Dr. Merriam, I am very glad to get your kind letter bringing
back our big little Sierra trip through the midst of so many blessed chipmunks and trees. Many thanks for your care and kindness
about the photographs and for the pile of interesting bird and beast Bulletins. No. 3 contains lots of masterly work and might
be expanded into a grand book. This you should do, adding and modifying in accordance with the knowledge you have gathered
during the last ten years. Bat Alas.9 Here you are pegging and puttering with the concerns of others as if in length of life
you expect to rival Sequoia. That stream and fountain article, which like Tennyson's brook threatened to go on forever, is
at last done, and I am now among the Big Tree parks. Not the man with the hoe, but the poor toiler with the pen deserves milt-long
commiseration in prose and rhyme. Give my kindest regards to Mrs. and Mr. Bailey and tell them I'll go guide with them to
Yosemite whenever they like unless I should happen to be hopelessly tied up in some way. With pleasant recollections from
Mrs. Muir and the girls I am very truly yours, JOHN MUIR Charlie Keeler has got out another nice new book (Poems).
1 North Am.Fauna No. 3 - Result of a Biological Survey of San Francisco Mt. the Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. By
C. Hart Merriam. Sept. 1900. 2 Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park 02742