Title:
Letter from H[iram] M[artin] Chittenden to John Muir, 1903 Feb 15.
Creator:
H[iram] M[artin] Chittenden
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:
John Muir
Date:
1903 Feb 15
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0187-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 26 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Sioux City, Iowa
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
2 subject. I illegible al illegible no? government funds? for the purpose and have to rely on my illegible beyond? where
I can secure? by contributions. I write this letter to ask if you will contribute your volume on Our National Parks . Due
acknowledgement will be made in the form of a printed slip giving the name of the donor and posted? on the inside of the front
cover? . If you can? contribute this, send by mail under? enclosed f illegible . Very truly yours? H M Chittenden Cap
n? E illegible illegible Your autograph in the book would be a most desirable feature. 1 letterhead SIOUX CITY, IOWA,
Feb 15 1903 Mr. John Muir: My dear Sir: I am in charge of the government work in the Yellowstone Park and am about to
erect? a fine stone structure for a government office for the work their. Our move? of this building is to be illegible to
an exhibition of the f illegible , flora etc of the park, and I wish to have it in? illegible a book illegible devoted? exclusively
to Park literature, in which I wish to include everything except illegible newspaper articles that has ever been written in
that 03165