Title:
Letter from Mary Armstrong to John Muir, 1908 Apr 6.
Creator:
Mary Armstrong
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:
John Muir
Date:
1908 Apr 6
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir17_0388-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Janesville, Wisc.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
illegible Buell SUPERINTENDENT OF CITY SCHOOLS and PRINCIPAL OF HIGH SCHOOL JANESVILLE, WISCONSIN Janesville, Wis.,April
6, 1908. Mr. John Muir, Martinez, Cal. Dear Sir:- My pupils in physical geography have become so much interested in
your work as a student of glaciers that they wish to secure your portrait to hang in the laboratory in which they recite.
They have raised the money to buy the portrait and now are quite disappointed that I am unable to obtain it for them, although
I have tried to do so through all the usual channels. Will you kindly inform me whether there is published a portrait suitable
for framing and, if so where it can be obtained? If not, I should be glad to know where I can secure a photograph from which
I can have a larger picture made. My only excuse for troubling you is the refusal of my pupils to be satisfied with any other
picture. Respectfully, Mary Armstroug. High School. illegible 04131