Title:
Letter from Henry Gannett to John Muir, 1904 Jul 7.
Creator:
Henry Gannett
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:
1904 Jul 7
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir14_0343-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Washington, D.C.
Rights:
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Transcription:
HG-ELDP DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY WASHINGTON, D. C. July 7, 1904. Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cala. My dear Muir, I have your note of June 4th written just after your return to God's country. I am sorry
I could not wait in Manila for you, for we could have had a good time trotting around together, but the census was finished
while you were still in the Himalayas, and I had no excuse for remaining. Isn't it a dear, quaint old town? I am in the middle
of the preparation of a report upon the Philippine Census, and that will keep me here all summer. No high Sierra for me this
summer. You know the Eighth International Geographic Congress is to meet here early in September. I am to be Secretary of
it. Now, it will be very desirable for you, as president of one of the societies which invited the Congress, to be here to
work with them, and you know there is a room at my house ready and waiting for you all the time, and so I hope you will obey
the call of duty and be here early in September. We will attend the meetings of the Congress here, and then go over to New
York and thence on to St. Louis. Yours very sincerely, Illegible 03400