Title:
Letter from Lucy M. Washburn to John Muir, 1892 Aug 12.
Creator:
Lucy M. Washburn
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:
1892 Aug 12
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir07_0620-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
…San Jose, [Calif]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
165 Devine St. 1 San Jose, Aug. 12. 1892 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir:- When Mr. Allen gave me this letter to you he suggested
that if I would call upon you at your home, it would make you less trouble than to answer any questions by letter: and it
was then impossible for me to go to Martinez, and has been since. I am now? to have a little time at my command Lowern.? before
our Normal School begins its new term. I have? been writing a little paper on the Alaska summer Tour? , which I took last
year 01591 2 under very favorable auspices. Since I came home, I have studied all I could find about the Muir Glacier:
but I find myself very desirous to ask your opinion on one or two points about which there seems a conflict of testimony I
should be glad to know what you rather than all others think on the matter: not simply to have my paper illegible , but because
the Glacier is to me inexp illegible ibly interesting. Are you likely to be at home at any time between Aug. 18 and 25? and
would it be agreeable that I should 01591 3 call some day between those dates and talk this matter over with you? Hoping
I am not asking too much. Very Truly Yours, Lucy M. Washburn. 01591