Title:
Letter from John Muir to [J. H.] Mell[ichamp], [1901].
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:
[J. H.] Mell[ichamp]
Date:
[1901]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_1107-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
[Martinez, Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
First draft of letter, in note-book 59 (13) 1901 My dear Dr. Mell ichamp : Many thanks for the fine sets of specimens
of P. Cubensis and Q. myrtifolia, all of which being so carefully and skilfully packed came to hand in excellent order. I
had not noticed before that this, or indeed any of our oaks matured at once, but I see that Prof. S argent in a note gives
you credit for this discovery in his Silva. I am glad you liked my tribute to ? and got pleasure from it. All the others seemed
to have forgotten his bro ther John who had the same peculiar charm of Southern manner and was quite as much loved and admired
by those who got near him, though he was never so widely known and popular as a teacher. I am sending with this a sketch
of the glaciers of the Coast which I wrote for the first book of the Harriman Expedition, and of which the publisher sent
me a few sets. Unfortunately all the best illustrations of the Muir glacier are in other parts of the big 2 volume book, but
I may get them for you get. How big and wild our country still is, and how strange this very part must seem to a S outh Carolinian.
With hearty thanks and best wishes, I am, my dear Dr., Ever faithfully, yours, J.M. 02890