Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Annie Kennedy] Bidwell, 1878 Feb 13.
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:
[Annie Kennedy] Bidwell
Date:
1878 Feb 13
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir03_0717-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
1419 Taylor St., S[an] F[rancisco]
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
stamped: Bidwell Papers Bancroft Library 1419 Taylor St S. F. Feb 13th 1878 Dear Mr Bidwell, Your letter of the 9th
alt? is received. I see by Sallies note that our estimate of Prof G illegible was a pretty correct one, But I will not make
any further use of Gray s exposure of him. For however peruicious deplorable the effects of unfaithful teaching, it is best
opposed controverted by a patient presentation of the truth, rather than by pursuing giving battle to individual humbeys?
. Life is too short to waste in hunting such poor game, the boundaries of the humbey field are being steadily contracted by
increase of underlined: Light , lovers of truth have nothing to fear. Your sister sent me a birch bark canoe through the post
office. She calls it Jumper No 3. it came laden with flowers altogether forms one of the daintiest conceits you ever saw.
Here is a photograph from a negative taken a year ago. Watkins made me sit for another negative, I will send you a copy from
it in a week or two. I am going to see Tahoe its snowy shows this week. I want a run on snowshoes a bath in the Keen chaste
beauty of that fountain water. Will probably go up Saturday stay a week or ten days. What do you think of that? With warm
regards to the General I am ever cordially yrs John Muir.