Title:
Letter from C. S. Sargent to John Muir, 1895 Jan 30.
Creator:
C. S. Sargent
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:
1895 Jan 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0778-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Rights:
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Transcription:
letterhead January 30, 1895 My dear Mr. Muir: Do you remember you told me that when you were in the Kerne River country
you got into clumps of White Oaks that were so thick that you had difficulty in prenetrating them? The Oak must have been
Quercus Breweri and I wish you would tell me where this place was, at what elevation, etc., and how high the bushes grew.
If I remember what you said correctly they were not less thatn twenty feel tall. Any information about the locality of the
bushes I shall be glad of. I am reading your Sierra book and I want to tell you that I have never read descriptions of trees
that so pictured them to the mind as yours do. No fellow who was at once a poet, naturalist, and a keen observer has to my
knowledge ever written about trees before and I believe you are the man who ought to have written a Silva of North America.
Your book is one of the great productions of its kind and I congratulate you on it. Faithfully yours, c. S. Sargent
John Muir, Esq., Martinex, Cala.