Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Gray Herbarium Archives, Harvard University. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission
to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Asa] Gray
Date:
1880 Mar 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir04_0078-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
920 Valencia St., San Francisco, [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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
920 Valencia St. Muir? San Francisco. March 16th 1880. Dear Gray, I send you here a few odds ends from Southeastern
Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed
majestically into the sea sends off bergs. There can hardly be less than 10,000 big little in the territory. counted over
200 from one standpoint. The forest are magnificent That cupressus we found about Shasta is not Nootkatensis? . Have just
been comparing them. Found specimens in Alaska 150 miles at? of Wrangel 150 ft high 6? ft diameter. Ever cordially yrs John
Muir