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letterhead July 7th 1899 Prof. John Muir Martinez Cal. My Dear sir: - I picked up today a recent number of current
literature which contained an extract from Prof. Olaf Ellison's article in the May Self-Culture paying an enthusiastic tribute
to what you have done for science and manhood, and then I found and read the entire article. The short biography therein
fully answers, I think, a query that has floated through my mind many times for the last thirty eight years, illegible : What
became of the John Muir, who, in the spring of 1861, occupied a room in North Hall of Wisconsin University and had whittled
out the wonderful docks, and made a thermometer out of a piece of zinc? washboard, and arranged the mechanism which would
tilt his bed and awaken him on a 02600