Title:
Letter from Melville Best Anderson to [John Muir], 1902 Sep 6.
Creator:
Melville Best Anderson
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:
1902 Sep 6
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0577-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Menlo Park [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
1 Sept 6, 1902, Menlo Park. Dear Kind Friend: Your offer to go with me to the mountains is the best thing I could
possibly have conceived. It is so good that I fear it can hardly be true,- but yes, there it is I am taking? electrical treatment
with Dr. Hirschfelde who doesn't want to let me go at present, I am illegible to break entirely with him, as I fear I should
have to do if I went now. Would it be possible for us to go, say, 03040 2 two weeks later than now? or about the 20th.
But I fear your offer to go represents rather the impulse of your big heart than a possibility : poetry rather than external
reality. Anyhow the offer is very cheering to me : and if I can summon courage to bid the doctor go tapsalteerie I'll attempt
to renew? the charming day dream. I am not exactly a puling paralytic; but you would find me a very humdrum companion, altho'
a very good listener (so I flatter myself). 03040 3 I'll go (if at all) wherever you think best. I had thought of going
to some quiet place, like the Sequoia grove near Ke illegible yer's, and camping there for some time, taking my Dante work
with me Two hours, or three, a day are my stint? . Of course it's too cold to camp in the high Sierras - But I will write
again soon. Meanwhile I am most gratefully yours Melville B Anderson Mr. John Muir 03040