Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Anna R.] Dickey, 1912 Oct 30.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Anna R.] Dickey
Date:
1912 Oct 30
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_1384-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original letter returned to Mrs. Anna R. Dickey Martinez, Oct. 30, 1912. Dear Mrs. Dickey: Your letter just received
and I heartily rejoice with you and Donald that you have enjoyed a serene inspiring summer in the peaceful northern woods
fathering health and strength to help the good along in whatever ways you are destined to travel. How unlike the peace of
the woods and streams is the war of the nations over the seas and beside us in Mexico, and the noisy bitter political battles
in our own favored country And the killing of Presidents -- is this never to end? The very best loved and the most useful
of all the world's rulers seem always to be the ones selected for murder. That the assassin's bullet was turned aside from
Roosevelt's heart all good people here and everywhere will thank God and rejoice. I attended the Sec. of the Interior's conference
in Yosemite on National Park affairs and had good opportunities to explain Hetch Hetchy questions, etc., and last Friday I
helped to finish the Sierra Club's reply to the San Francisco engineer's mass of special pleading. Now I'm trying to hide
and settle down to my own natural work. I'm glad you like the pictures. You are welcome to as many more copies as you like
of what's left. With love to Donald, admiring his brave heart, I am, Ever faithfully your friend, JOHN MUIR The first
chapter of My Boyhood , somewhat abridged, is in the November Atlantic. Envelope addressed Mrs. Anna R. Dickey, San Rafael
Heights, Pasadena, California . 05291