Title:
Letter from Elderd J. D. Hercus to John Muir, 1905 Jun 10.
Creator:
Elderd J. D. Hercus
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 Jun 10
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir15_0519-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Mision Evangelica, Argentina
Rights:
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Transcription:
Mision Evangelica Coronel Suarez F.C.S. Argentina 10th June /05. Dear Mr Muir, I take shame to myself that your
kind letter of Feb. 15th and the most interesting book which accompanied it should have remained so long unacknowedged. Pressure
of work must be my excuse, and also the desire to know more of the contents of my present in order the better to thank you
for it. I have now read several chapters to my wife, and we are both very pleased with the sympathetic interpretation you
gave of some of nature's loveliest and rarest pleases. Naturally the great ranges of this continent will be for you the object
of greatest interest when you realize your visit, and we are far out in the camp; but we should feel honored could you turn
aside to see us. We are a night's train journey out from Buenos Aires. Thanks for you kind hope that we should visit you
if ever in California. It seems an unlikely thing, but as they say here Quien sabe. With kind regards Believe me Yours
sincerely, Eldred J. D. Marcus