Title:
Letter from John Muir to W[illia]m E. Colby, 1911 Feb 4.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of
the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
W[illia]m E. Colby
Date:
1911 Feb 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0094-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Los Angeles
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Los Angeles, Cal., Feb. 4,1911, 325 West Adams Street, Mr. Wm. E. Colby, 302 Mills Bldg., San Francisco, Cal, Dear
Mr. Colby:- I think our Club ought to render all possible assistance in making the Rainier National Park accessible to the
public by means of roads and trails suggested in the enclosed paper. I am only now recovering from a pretty severe seige of
the Grip and am up to my eyes in Yosemite work, so that I do not feel able to do much personal work in this fight for the
fifty thousand dollars appropriation desired. The outing plans for next year seem all right and no doubt you will have all
you can take care of. Give Mr. Keith my love and tell me how he is. I had a letter the other day from Charlie Keeler. He said
Keith was very despondent. Tell him to cheer up. After this depressing stormy winter weather is over he will no doubt have
a revival of strength and hopefulness in the spring. My daughter Helen is here and day before yesterday she gave birth to
a fine hopeful boy, to be named John M. of course.Remember me to Mrs. Colby and Mr. and Mrs. Parsons and yourtwo little boys.
With all good wishes, Faithfully yours, illegible