Title:
Letter from Elon R. Brown to John Muir, 1903 Jul 18.
Creator:
Elon R. Brown
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:
John Muir
Date:
1903 Jul 18
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0717-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Watertown, N. Y.
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
July18,1903. John Muir. Esq., San Francisco , Cal. My dear Sir:- Through the liberality of one of our citizens, Mrs.
Emma Flower Taylor, we are building and about to equip a library for this City. Knowing your interest in forestry and the
spread of accurate information in relation to it, I take the liberty of asking you to suggest the titles of such books on
forestry as you think should be in a library --- on that or related subjects, the more the better. I read your article on
Sergeant s Silva in the Atlantic with great, pleasure. May be such a forest library would serve as a suggestion to other
libraries. While I am thus endeavoring to burden you, please permit me to explain that I have been interested in forestry
for many years, for the last five years have been chairman of the forestry committee of the New York Senate, and am now also
president of the Board of Trustees of this Library. When President Roosevelt was Governor, I co-operated with him wholly in
relation to such interests in the State. Very respectfully yours ILLEGIBLE 03275