Title:
Letter from H. Williard to John Muir, 1905 Jnn 28.
Creator:
H. Williard
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:
1905 Jnn 28
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0560-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Chicago
Rights:
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Transcription:
PUBLISHINGDEPARTMENT A.C.M CLURG . CO. 215-221 WABASH AVENUE. CHICAGO. June 28, 1905 Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Calif.
Dear Mr. Muir:- Since I returned from the Coast I have been very busily engaged in routine work, and until now have had
no opportunity to make up for your daughter, Miss Helen, the print which I promised to send her. I have pleasure in forwarding
it to her in your care, and hope it will arrive duly, and trust she may enjoy it. I have put in with the print one I just
lately made of a hickory tree, which, being a photograph (and a rather good one at that) of a tree, I have thought you might
enjoy having. I find also I have a good, print taken from near Rainbow Spring, on Mount Lowe, looking down the mountain, which
it occurred to me you might enjoy having, inasmuch as it. is a quite typical illustration of the mountains of Southern California.
This I have put in the package, and two copies of one of the negatives I made of yourself in your library. I confess these
portraits are not very good, but perhaps they will interest you, as they are, I believe, unlike anything you have so far.
Should you care for them, I would gladly send you some more prints of this portrait. Would you also greatly oblige me by giving
Mrs. Muir the little landscape with mountains and river included in the package, together with my kind wishes. I have the
most vivid recollection of the profitable and pleasant Sunday which I spent at your home in April, and also of the joyful
little luncheon party participated in by yourself, Keith, Willis Polk and myself on the Monday following. I trust you will
accept my kind regards, and I remain Very cordially yours H. Willard Dict. S.L.W. in margin: Misc - Johnson Osborn Sargent
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