Title:
Letter from Benj[amin] I. Wheeler to John Muir, 1903 Mar 21.
Creator:
Benj[amin] I. Wheeler
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:
1903 Mar 21
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0313-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Berkeley [Calif.]
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Transcription:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Berkeley, March 21, 1903. My dear Mr. Muir: What I telephoned you
today I would like to repeat in written form. The opportunity of spending three or four days in the forests of the Yosemite
with the President, who is the most enthusiastic lover of nature, I will warrant, you ever met, seems to me a thing which
you surely ought not to let fail. I talked with the President some months ago about his outing in California, and he decided
that he wanted to have a look at the California forests and uplands, and to have it as a total release from the worries and
flurries of official life. (He has concluded that he would like to have you go with him alone.) You might, and probably would,
take with you a man to 'nip cook and take care of things. Joseph LeConte is ready to do this if you wish him to. As you know
he is quiet and unobtrusive, and would really, while helping you very greatly, be less in the way than any other guide could
be. I hope you will not let the trip-round-the-world people deprive you of the pleasure I know you would have, and rob the
President of the United States of his cherished plan. I am sure that these people the moment they know they have to will change
the arrangements easily. (The President will arrive at Raymond by special train Friday morning, May 15th, and leaves the following
Monday night.) We have planned that he with the rest of his company should go on with us to the Big Trees, and at that point
you and he should separate yourselves from the company and lose yourselves in the woods, rejoining us the following Monday.
Very faithfully yours, illegible Mr. John Muir, Martinez, California. 03190