Title:
Letter from John Muir to [J. H.] Mellichamp, [1901].
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:
[J. H.] Mellichamp
Date:
[1901]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_1105-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Martinez, Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
First draft of letter, in note-book 1 (3) Martinez, 1901 My dear Dr. Mellichamp: Many thanks for the fine specimens
of P. Cubensis nicely and carefully prepared and packed. They arrived in fine condition, and brought vividly to mind an amusing
picture at a railroad station in Florida. While waiting for a train one Sunday morning I offered a bare legged negro boy a
dime to climb a tall Cubensis for a flowering branchlet. Instantly fifteen or 20 of them splashed across into the wet hollow
where the tree grew and began to climb, boosting each other or pulling each other down, greatly to the wonderment of the well
dressed mammies, who declared, Dam boys done gone crazy, or had de double in em. How happy you must be in your old haunts,
with thronging memories of the times befo de wan. With kindest regards, Ever yours, John Muir 02890