Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1903 Mar 12.
Creator:
[John Muir]
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
Date:
1903 Mar 12
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0261-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 17 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Martinez, Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
First draft of letter, in note-book Charles Sprague Sargent March 12, 03. Dear Sargent: I wrote you 8 or 10 days ago
that I would leave all and follow you through the wilds of civilization, if you would guide and personally conduct, etc. Now,
I am anxious to know the date of sailing, and whether without deranging your plans the date might be in say the first week
in June instead of last of May, as in one of your letters you proposed, because an influential man from Washington wants to
make a trip into the Sierra with me, and I might be able to do some forest good in talking freely around the campfire. Will
you therefore telegraph the date, so I may know just how much time I have? Ever faithfully yours, John Muir 03098