Title:
Letter from R. B. Marshall to John Muir, 1911 Jun 28.
Creator:
R. B. Marshall
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:
1911 Jun 28
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0437-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Washington [D. C.]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON TOPOQRAPHIC BRANCH June 28, 1911. Mr. John Muir,
1 East 69th St., New York, N. Y. My dear Mr. Muir: I have been delayed in answering your kind letter of June 8th although
the maps were sent to you promptly. I hope they will give you all the information you need. In locating particular spots and
general scenes from memory, your brilliant mind needs no map to guide it while talking to the people through your hooks about,
that wonderful country. I noticed in the paper that you are still hobnobbing with the big people at Yale and taking the Doctor
of letters degree. Even this No. 1 East 69th Street, New York City, reminds me that our simple plain John Muir is continuing
his giddy life in his old age. If you do make that southern trip, I wish you all pleasure of course, but, if it were in my
power, I would not let a man who means so much to the world, and especially to these United States, go alone. I am almost
tempted to write Mrs. Harriman personally and ask her to use her good influences to keep you among us. With kindest regards,
Yours very sincerely, illegible 05058