Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1899 Feb 16.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Archives, Boston, Massachusetts. Please contact this institution directly to obtain
copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
Date:
1899 Feb 16
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0676-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, Feb. 16, 1899. My dear Prof Sargent. I'm going to the city in a day or two will hunt up tree pictures. I have
written to two skaging? inhabitants about the birch flowers hope to get them. in margin: oaks are now putting forth leaves
flowers. Winter gone nothing illegible You expect me to make the effort of my life on your book. It bids fair to take all
my life What with grippe a swarm of distracting interruptions I got little done this winter almost nothing. Mrs M. has been
laid up with Grippe over two months is still confined to bed though a little better. I have been writing a good many sheep
letters. A disgusting business. You perhaps had better write to the President the land office. Glad to learn you family are
better. Ever Yours John Muir