Letter from Robert Ridrway to John Muir, 1900 Feb 15 .

• Main Author: Ridrway, Robert
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1900
• Subjects: John Muir; correspondence; letters; author; writing; naturalist; California; correspondent; mail; message; post; exchange of letters; missive; notes; epistle; Great Glacier; Keeler; Mt. Carmel; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/15298; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/40233/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg

[2]excuses to offer for the delay, the principal one being that I have had so much to do that I realy have not had time to get them ready. My negatives were all more or less defective and consequentl the prints all required touching up. Having been laid up at home for two days with a severe attack of acute indigestion (something quite new to me), I have found time today, during my convalescence, to put on the finishing touches, and now have them ready to send. They don't amount to much, as photographs, but are of interest as representing objects which are now no more. Mr. Keeler had already sent me a copy of his book (which I duly acknowledged), but I am none the less pleased to receive this second [3]copy, particularly since you have so kindly inscribed your autograph and kind regards on the fly leaf. In last evening's Washington Star I read an article (from the Scientific Monthly) giving n account of the havoc wrought by the earthquake along the coast of Alaska, and was pained to note the partial destruction of the great glacier. especially the peerless "Muir", which, now that I cannot see it any more I think of with feelings very different from those I had when so near it last summer, and I have often regretted that I did not see more of it. How interesting it would be to go back there and see all the changes that the earthquake has wrought! Do you think the accounts have been exaggerated?[6]6. Upland forest, Knox Co., Indiana. 7. Bottomland forest, Gibson Co., Indiana (immediately opposite Mt. Carmel, Illinois). (The photographs are numbered on reverse side) https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/40233/thumbnail.jpg