Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 7.

3By brave & mighty Proteus-Muggins you have also done well, though you might have praised him a little more loudly for hearty endurance under manifold hardships - defying the salt blasts of the sea from Alaska to the California Golden Gate, & the frosts and fires of the Rocky Mountains - gro...

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Main Author:	Muir, John
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spelling	ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-43673 2023-08-27T04:09:34+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 7. Muir, John 1898-06-07T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18738 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43673/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18738 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43673/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html ) John Muir Correspondence John Muir correspondence letters author writing naturalist California correspondent mail message post exchange of letters missive notes epistle text 1898 ftunivpacificdc 2023-08-07T20:26:55Z 3By brave & mighty Proteus-Muggins you have also done well, though you might have praised him a little more loudly for hearty endurance under manifold hardships - defying the salt blasts of the sea from Alaska to the California Golden Gate, & the frosts and fires of the Rocky Mountains - growing patiently in mossy bogs & craggy mountain tops - crouching low on glacier granite pavements, holding on by narrow cleavage joints, or waving tall & slender & graceful in flowery garden spots sheltered from every wind among columbines & lilies, etc. A line or two of sound sturdy Mother Earth poetry such as you ventured to give ponderosa in nowise weakens or blurs the necessarily dry stubbed scientific description, & I'm sure Muggins deserves it. However I'm not going fault finding. It's a grand volume - a Kingly Lambertiana job, & on many a mountain top trees now seedlings will be giants and will wave their shining tassels two hundred feet in the sky ere another pine book will be made - so you may well sing your nunc dimittis, & so in sooth may I since you have engraved my name on the head of it. https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43673/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Golden Gate ENVELOPE(-134.237,-134.237,59.616,59.616)
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Letter from John Muir to [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jun 7.

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