Title:
Letter from Benj[amin] I. Wheeler to John Muir, 1903 Mar 24.
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 24
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0329-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Berkeley [Calif.]
Rights:
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Transcription:
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA OFFICE OF THE PRESIDENT Berkeley, March 24, 1903. My dear Mr. Muir: The President has telegraphed
asking for the detailed plan of his trip in the Yosemite. I have sent him an outline; I have not told him that you could not
come, for I confidently believe it will be arranged all right; indeed, cannot be otherwise. The orderliness of nature will
not allow so fit a plan to fail. My plan is that the President should leave his car at Raymond on the morning of Friday, May
15th, and proceed with his whole party to the Big Trees, reaching there at three or four in the afternoon. Without anyone'S
knowing it or noticing it you two could then slip away into the woods and the rest of the party would go on by stage to Wawona,
and the next day to the Sentinel Hotel. I have thought it might be well for you to take young Joe LeConte as cook and guide;
possibly, however, we could have LeConte go with the rest of the party, and give you a man whom Mr. A. S. Mann, the Secretary
of Washburn Brothers, has recommended to me as a man who is particularly well acquainted with that region and particularly
well able to take care of the horses, food, etc. Evidently the President does not want a crowd along; he may not want anybody
besides yourself. Very faithfully yours, illegible Mr. John Muir, Martinez, California. 03192