Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1903 Mar 9.
Creator:
C[harles] S[prague] 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:
1903 Mar 9
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0253-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 9, 1903 My dear Muir: I am delighted to learn from
your letter of the 2nd that you are good for the Siberian trip. You need not give any thought to any of the troublesome details
which seem to worry you. All you have got to do is to appear here not later than the 15th with your gripsack and the 5000.
which we will deposit in Boston to your credit I would suggest, however, that if you have a boot-maker in San Francisco who
makes the sort of boots you like it would be a good idea for you to provide yourself with a pairs of good comfortable ones
before you leave home. Of course you can have them made here or you can get them in London, but I think it is always wiser
to go to a man who understands the peculiarities of one's feet. It is a very great pleasure to me that we are likely to see
so much of each other this year and your going adds immensely to the possibilities of the journey. Glad to hear that your
labors over The Silva are finished. I have no doubt you have written the best thing that has been said about it. I have already
engaged passage for you and will attend to your passport, etc., in due time. Always faithfully yours, illegible John
Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. 03178