Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1897 Sep 30.
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:
1897 Sep 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_1081-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., September 30, 1897. My dear Muir: I enclose a couple of
letters from Abbot which you may like to see. Please return them sometime or other. The other letter which I enclose, and
which need not be returned, is written by a man eighty-seven years old and a great lover and planter of trees. Evidently he
has lived long enough to be able to know a good thing when he sees it. You must come next summer and see him. It is lucky
I hurried home, for my eldest daughter has been grievously ill during the past ten days with appendicitis. A week ago she
underwent a most serious operation; it was successful and she is doing as well as possible, and we feel now that she is out
of danger. It has been, however, a terribly anxious time. I trust you will be spared such an experience. Poor Stiles is failing
rapidly and probably cannot last more than another week. He is not suffering very much except from lassitude, and his mind
is keen as ever--a first-rate fellow and a great loss to this whole country. What are you doing? Faithfully yours, illegible
John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. illegible 02343