Title:
Letter from C. Alwin Schenck to John Muir, 1899 Jan 16.
Creator:
C. Alwin Schenck
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 Jan 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0630-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Biltmore, N. C.
Rights:
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Transcription:
FOREST DEPARTMENT,BILTMORE ESTATE, C. A. SCHENCK, FORESTER, BILTMORE,N.O. January 16,1899. Mr.John Muir, Martinez,Cal.
My Dear Mr. Muir: I am greatly indebted for the copy of The Mountains of California recently sent to me.The book will certainly
increase in me the avidity of seeing and studying those mountains personally.I hope good luck will favor me in my endeavors
to take a trip out west. I am glad to know that your trip to Florida etc. in the company of Prof. Sargent continued to be
pleasant.I would have given a great deal to have been able to accompany you on such an instructive expedition, although,perhaps,there
was a little too much botany in it for my digestion. I have recently written to the Secy.of the Sierra Club, not knowing
your vital connection with it, relative to the bulletins of the club which I thought were full of forestry interests. I find,however,that
they are largely devoted to other purposes and do not think it necessary for that reason to join the sierra Club as I would
have done otherwise. Hoping that the year just commenced will have good health in store for you, Very faithfully yours,
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