Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16.

920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There...

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Main Author:	Muir, John
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Published:	Scholarly Commons 1880
Subjects:	Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters glaciers Alaska
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spelling	ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-1524 2023-10-01T03:56:10+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16. Muir, John 1880-03-16T07:52:58Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/525 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/1524/viewcontent/muir04_0078_md_1.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/525 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/1524/viewcontent/muir04_0078_md_1.pdf The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies. ) John Muir Correspondence (PDFs) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters text 1880 ftunivpacificdc 2023-09-02T22:29:11Z 920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There can hardly be less than 10,000 big & little in the territory. counted over 200 from one standpoint. The forest are magnificent That cupressus we found about Shasta is not [Nootkatensis?]. Have just been comparing them. Found specimens in Alaska 150 miles [at?] of Wrangel 150 ft high [6?] ft diameter. Ever cordially yrs John Muir Text glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons
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description	920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There can hardly be less than 10,000 big & little in the territory. counted over 200 from one standpoint. The forest are magnificent That cupressus we found about Shasta is not [Nootkatensis?]. Have just been comparing them. Found specimens in Alaska 150 miles [at?] of Wrangel 150 ft high [6?] ft diameter. Ever cordially yrs John Muir
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Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16.

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