Title:
Letter from C[harles] S. Sargent to John Muir, 1896 May 30.
Creator:
C[harles] S. Sargent
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1896 May 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0175-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM. HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., May 30, 1896 My dear Mr. Muir: I return to you with many
thanks the communications you have been good enough to send me in reference to the Big Trees. Engelmann, in The Botany of
California, speaks of the fruit of Sequoia as maturing the second year. This I should think must be a mistake, as there is
nothing to show on any of my specimens that it does not ripen the first autumn. If I am wrong about this,I wish you would
send me a line by return post that I may make the correction in my proofs. If the fruit does mature the second year,I should
much like to see a cone during its first winter. I am delighted to learn that Harvard is going to honor itself by giving
you a degree at Commencement, which is on the 24th day of June. Nothing, I hope, will prevent your being in Cambridge on that
day, and while you are in this neighborhood you will of course stay with me in Brook line. illegible I am going west myself
with some members of my Commission on the 2nd of July and I am not without hope that you may be returning home at that time
and that we may all go together. It might be a good idea for you to telegraph either Johnson or me, if you have notalready
done so, if you will be here on the 24th. Faithfully yours,