Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Henry F.] Osborn, 1897 Nov [?].
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:
[Henry F.] Osborn
Date:
1897 Nov [?]
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_1167-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
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1984
Transcription:
Martinez, California, November 1897 My dear Prof. Osborn Where have all the Osborns been this Summer? I thought of you
the other day when I read your Great illegible turalist in the Century and many times last summer in Alaska. illegible I spent
a short time in the Rocky Mountain forests between Banff illegible Glacier with (Prof.) Sargent and Mr. Ganby then we went
to Alaska, mostly by the same route you traveled. We were on the Queen had your state rooms. The weather was not so fine as
during your trip. The glorious color we so enjoyed on the upper deck was wanting, but the views of the noble peaks of the
Fair weather Range were sublime. They were perfectly clear loomed in the azure, ice-laden and white like very Gods. Canby
Sargent were lost in admiration as if they had got into a perfectly new world so they had, old travelers though they are.
I've been writing about the forests, mostly, doing what little I can to save them. Harpers weekly the Atlantic Monthly have
published something; the latter published an article last August, I sent another two weeks ago am pegging away on three others
for the same magazine on The National Parks Sequoia and I want this winter to try some more Alaska. But I make slow hard work
of it - slow and hard as glaciers. I missed seeing our good friend Kip. Fe arrived in San Francisco just as I left for the
Rockies. When are you coming again to our wild side of the continent how goes your big book? I suppose it will be about as
huge as Sargents Silva, When next you come west you must all come to our house, illegible I my little girls will go with
you to Yosemite. With Kindest regards to all the Osborns and the Wing-on-Wing Chickarus I am Ever cordially yours John
Muir illegible 02357