Letter from Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore to John Muir, 1891 Sep 12.

• Main Author: Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1891
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; Bering Sea; Taku; The Thirty Mile; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/14428; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/39363/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

Washington, D. C., Sept. 12th, '91. Dear Mr. Muir: As I am not in the way of seeing you in person this fall, will you tell me the common and uncommon name of this little flower - the fragrant wax plant that grows in the mosses in the woods all around Sitka? I never found such a botanical desert...