Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1899 Sep 13.
Creator:
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
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:
1899 Sep 13
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0982-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Rights:
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Transcription:
Jamaica Plain, Mass., September 13, 1899. My dear Muir: Why is it that guitters are always obstinate? If you deny this
proposition, prove it by making your appearance in St. Louis at the end of next week. I expect now to leave here on the 19th
and go by Chicago and Peoria, Illinois, to St. Louis, arriving there Thursday or Friday, the 21st or 22nd. Canby will go directly
to St. Louis from Wilmington, meeting me there. We shall probably stay in the neighborhood of St, Louis for at least three
days before starting southward, so you will have abundant time after you get this letter to write a few articles, pack your
gripsack, investigate the Juniper in eastern Oregon and meet us In St. Louis. Yes, this may be our last trip for I am getting
old and rheumaticky and Crataegus will finish me, I fancy, before I get done with it: if there is anything left, we have India
and China to fall back upon. I had a couple of days with Canby in Wilmington and Pennsylvania hunting Crataeguses and found
the weather abominably hot. In haste, Faithfully yours, C. S. illegible John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. illegible