Title:
Letter from Sherman D. Thacher to John Muir, 1910 Dec 14.
Creator:
Sherman D. Thacher
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:
1910 Dec 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir19_0997-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 22 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Nordhoff, Calif.
Rights:
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Transcription:
THE THACHER SCHOOL AT CASA DE PIEDEA RANCH IN THE OJAI VALLEY VENTURA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA illegible SHERMAN DAY THACHER
WILLIAM LARNED THACHER ASSOCIATE HEADMASTERS NORDHOFF, CALIFORNIA, December 14, 1910. My dear Mr. Muir: A small group
of our boys are thinking of going to the Yosemite in the Christmas vacation. It occurs to me, naturally how delightful it
would be to have you with us for a few days at least before the boys start, to teach them a little of the way to love your
beloved Yosemite. You need not think we shall make you make a speech, but we should simply set about, and walk about, with
you, and hear you talk in the way that I know the pleasure of so well. Please do not think me importunate. I only write because
I know that some day it may happen to be entirely convenient and agreeable for you to run up here. If you take the eight o'clock
a.m. train or the 2:30 p.m. train, you connect with the Ojai train very conveniently, or I will meet you in Ventura by automobile.
You can talk with me directly by Sunset telephone any morning between 8:15 and 10:,-- and often at other times. Do not bother
to reply to this unless you happen to feel like falling in with my suggestion. Yours most sincerely, illegible To:
Mr. John Muir, Care Mr. J. D. Hooker, West Adams Street, Los Angeles. 04913