Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Katharine Hooker], 1912 Jul 2.
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:
[Katharine Hooker]
Date:
1912 Jul 2
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_1084-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Hollywood [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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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:
1525 Formosa Ave., Hollywood, California , July 2 1912. Dear friend: I was hoping to get another glimpse of you on your
return from San Diego until Mrs. Dickey sent word that you had hurried back north. What a load of good work and good pleasure
you must be carrying these eventful days. All this southland seems lonely since you left it. From Hollywood the big Eddy science
dome is sometimes dimly visible through sea fog and dust, and it marks for me the location of the West Adams home where so
many memorable days and weeks and months were spent. I've been at work here on my African and S. American notes, and Mrs.
Thompson has made duplicate typewritten copies of them all The Century editor wants three or four articles out of them, but
I don't see much readily available magazine stuff in them, excepting perhaps the Amazon, the Araucaria forests of Chile and
Brazil, the Mombasa and Zambesi Baobabs, and the Victoria Nyanza. Besides I'm unsettled as yet. Helen's bungalow is too small
for word work, and I'm half or more inclined to seek a short rest and try to get rid of mind rust and dust cough in icy Alaska
or the ever-blessed Sierra. My love to you, dear friend, and to all who love you. JOHN MUIR Envelope addressed Katharine
Hooker, 3277 Pacific Ave., San Francisco, Cal.