Title:
Letter from Harry Fielding Reid to John Muir, 1905 Dec 22.
Creator:
Harry Fielding Reid
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:
1905 Dec 22
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0862-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Baltimore, Md.
Rights:
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Transcription:
GEOLOGICAL LABORATORY, JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY, BALTIMORE,MD. December 22, 1905. Mr, John Muir, Martinez, Cal. My
dear Mr. Muir:- Did you get to the glaciers last summer and have you any informations for my annual report on the variations?
I spent the summer in the illegible with my family and did more climbing that glacial study. We were in the Dolomites which
have some wonderful and beautiful forms ant which carry very, little illegible 1 was also in the Engadine and there had a
meeting of number of Eropean glacialists , who acoompanied me to the Forno glacier and were convinced of my views regarding
the relation of stratification and blue-bands. All of my family is comparitively wills and the children art growing to be
pretty big; my oldest boy la nearly fourteen. With kind regards and beet wishes for a happy Christmas, I am, Yours very
truly. illegible 03664