Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1899 Dec 16.
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:
1899 Dec 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_1098-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, December 16, 1899. My dear Muir: How are you getting along?
Better, I hope, than we are in this part of the world. I have had a horrid attack of bronchitis which kept me in the house
for ten days and which is still troublesome but better, and my oldest daughter on her return from Europe was taken with typhoid
fever, fortunately not a bad case. She is better but not sitting up yet. Crataegus still bothers me and seems a hopeless
task. I do not think I shall ever finish it.I have at last received specimens from Oregon which satisfy illegible that the
fruit of Hooker's Juniperus occidentalis requires two years in which to ripen.It is possible, therefore, that the species
of the high Sierra is the same as that of the plains of eastern Oregon. The specimens, however, look somewhat different but
I find no way of satisfactorily separating them. Some one who knows about Junipers ought to see these trees growing. Any chance
of your getting to Oregon this winter or in the early spring, or on your way east? We can meet either in St. Louis or San
Antonio as you may prefer. Canby and I are both counting on your company. With kind regards to your family and the compliments
of the season. Faithfully yours, John Muir,Esq. C. S. Sargent 02647