Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1909 Dec 14.
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:
1909 Dec 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0954-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Jamaica Palin,Mass., December 14, 1909. Dear Muir: I am glad to see your signature
on your open letter concerning the Hetch-hetchy Valley; it is all right. It seems hard to believe that such a thing can be
done. Who is at the bottom of this? Is this one of Pinchot's schemes to curry favor with the public? I should like to know
how you are getting on and if your daughter is better. Are you working on your book and when will it be finished? we are rather
deep here in these days in Chinese trees of which there appear to be hundreds of new ones. Think of one region with thirty
or forty different Spruce trees, more than all the rest of the world put together. What a pity it is that we are not twenty
years younger that we might go and see some of these wonders With the compliments of the season and best wishes for the New
Year, Always faithfully yours, illegible John Muir, Esq., Martinez, Cal. 04649