Title:
Letter from Irving Fisher to John Muir, 1905 Nov 10 .
Creator:
Irving Fisher
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:
1905 Nov 10
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0824-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New Haven, Conn.
Rights:
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Transcription:
illegible University Department of political Economy illegible Conn. Nov.10, 1905. Mr. John Martinez, Cal. My dear
I.Ir. Muir:- I hope you will not think me unduly pertinacious if I write you again to ask whether you can aid me by contributing
some data from your personal experience on the relation of diet to fatigue. My point of view is not that of a vegetarian,
but simply of a truth-seeker and hygienist, and your own experience as it has been related to me would seem to be particularly
valuable, because you also apparently have no vegetarian or other bias, and have made free use of whatever diet suited your
purpose. In other words, you have alternated. I am told, between a diet without meat on your walking excursions, and the ordinary
diet, including meat, at other times. Whether your motives had anything to do with endurance I do not know, but you can enlighten
me. Hoping that you will consent to drop me a line in regard to this matter, I am Very truly yours, illegible P.S. I
make only impersonal use of all my information, and the names of correspondents will be withheld from any publication.