Title:
Letter from C. Hart Merriam to John Muir, 1899 Apr 1.
Creator:
C. Hart Merriam
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1899 Apr 1
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0726-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Washington, D.C.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
letterhead April 1, 1899 Prof. John Muir Martinez, Calif. My dear Sir: A wealthy New Yorker is going to Cook's Inlet
and Kodiak, ID., starting from Puget Sound the last weeks of May and returning in 60 days. We will have one of the best steamers
on the Pacific coast, and his purpose is to take his family and a party of scientific men and see the country to best advantages.
We will take the inside passage up probably return direct from Kodiak or the Peninsula. Among those going are Dr. Wm H. Dall,
G.K. Gilbert (geologist), L.C. Caville (botanist) probably Mr. illegible . The projector of the enterprise, who pays all expenses,
has asked me to invite you to be one of the party, and I earnestly trust you will accept. He wished to keep the matter quite
confidential for the present. I tried to call you on at Martinez last October but found you were then in the East. Hoping
to be with you on this trip, I remain very truly yours C. Hart Merriam