Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1899 Nov 13.
Creator:
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1899 Nov 13
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_1078-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 13, 1899. My dear Muir: I am glad to hear that
you will be with us in the spring. We ought to meet about the 1st of March and St. Louis will be a good meeting place. This
ought to be a most interesting trip, and if you will only stick by me you will have an opportunity to see the eastern spring
appear all the way from Texas to Massachusetts. No, Canby was not with me on this trip: he was detained at home by various
business complications, so I had to be alone except when I picked up local lights from time to time. The trip was not satisfactory
in spite of what you say. It is one thing to find out the existence of Crataegus and a very different thing to find out anything
about species, and I am hopelessly at sea in the whole matter. Volume xiii. isn't delightful and I don't see any chance of
its being finished. The Oregon botanists are no good in looking at Junipers, and if you need a vacation, as I daresay you
do, you cannot do better than take a run into southeastern Oregon. The tree is common, as I understand it, near Klamath Falls
and eastward. I work all the time but don't accomplish anything or get any fun out of it. It would do me more good than anything
I know to have your company for a few days. Faithfully yours, illegible 02640