Title:
Letter from [John Muir] to C[hester] Rowell, 1903 Mar 11.
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:
C[hester] Rowell
Date:
1903 Mar 11
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir13_0259-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, Calif.
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, California. March 11, 1903. Dr. C. Rowell, Sacramento, Gal. My dear Sir:- The High Sierra is always open
and hospitable to Mountaineers afoot, but with pack animals nearly all the region above an elevation of 7000 or 8000 feet
is inaccessible until about the end of June. If the Presidents trip must be short, and be made in April or May I agree with
you that he had better go to Yosemite by public conveyance. And from the Valley as a central camp, excursions could be made
afoot to high points around the rim commanding general views of the Range. I have agreed to go with a party on a trip through
the forests of Russia, Manchuria and Japan. This party is to sail from New York about the last of May or early in June. Until
that time I shall be glad to devote myself to the President and go the President and go with him wherever he likes. illegible
Faithfully yours illegible 03180