Letter from Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore to John Muir, 1895 Sep 16.
[4][re-] member that I had an article on Muir Glacier stopped in the middle when the concern died.I suppose that those little girls are quite large girls now, but I trust you will remember me to Mrs. Muir and the daughters, and to any of our mutual Alaska friends whom you may meet.With best wishes f...
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ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-4154 2023-10-01T03:56:07+02:00 Letter from Eliza Ruhamah Scidmore to John Muir, 1895 Sep 16. Scidmore, Eliza Ruhamah 1895-09-16T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3138 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/4154/viewcontent/muir08_1171_let.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3138 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/4154/viewcontent/muir08_1171_let.pdf Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user. John Muir Correspondence (PDFs) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters text 1895 ftunivpacificdc 2023-09-02T22:32:22Z [4][re-] member that I had an article on Muir Glacier stopped in the middle when the concern died.I suppose that those little girls are quite large girls now, but I trust you will remember me to Mrs. Muir and the daughters, and to any of our mutual Alaska friends whom you may meet.With best wishes for the grape crop and the rains, I amSincerelyEliza Ruhamah Scidmore[1]The ShorehamWashington D. C. Sept 16, '95Dear Mr. MuirI have returned you see safely from my circumnavigation, and now I know for myself that the earth is round. No more hearsay evidence to be accepted on that point.I shall speak disrespectfully of the equator too if I want to, for I went over the imaginary hair line on the water02023 [2]and saw Java. I had some compunctions down there I must confess at having so much botanically wasted on me, who doesn't know a cotyledon any too well. It was glorious though, that vegetation--the whole island cultivated from end to end like a botanical garden and that [Buitengong?] garden is the ideal one of all I saw.The Himalayas are all they are cracked up to be, too. I saw them at Darjeeling, Simla and Khyber Pass, and they were[3]giants. I was sold on Mt. Everest--for after starting in the middle of the night twice to go up to a high place and see the sun rise over it, what did I see as the biggest, highest thing on earth? A little white nub of a thing off on the sky line, just a size larger than my thumb. I'll back my Mt. Ruhamah against it any time when it has its snow on.Did the attorney Sukersley ever save anything for me from the wreck of the California Magazine? You re- Text glacier Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Khyber Pass ENVELOPE(-45.609,-45.609,-60.719,-60.719) Thumb ENVELOPE(-64.259,-64.259,-65.247,-65.247) |
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[4][re-] member that I had an article on Muir Glacier stopped in the middle when the concern died.I suppose that those little girls are quite large girls now, but I trust you will remember me to Mrs. Muir and the daughters, and to any of our mutual Alaska friends whom you may meet.With best wishes for the grape crop and the rains, I amSincerelyEliza Ruhamah Scidmore[1]The ShorehamWashington D. C. Sept 16, '95Dear Mr. MuirI have returned you see safely from my circumnavigation, and now I know for myself that the earth is round. No more hearsay evidence to be accepted on that point.I shall speak disrespectfully of the equator too if I want to, for I went over the imaginary hair line on the water02023 [2]and saw Java. I had some compunctions down there I must confess at having so much botanically wasted on me, who doesn't know a cotyledon any too well. It was glorious though, that vegetation--the whole island cultivated from end to end like a botanical garden and that [Buitengong?] garden is the ideal one of all I saw.The Himalayas are all they are cracked up to be, too. I saw them at Darjeeling, Simla and Khyber Pass, and they were[3]giants. I was sold on Mt. Everest--for after starting in the middle of the night twice to go up to a high place and see the sun rise over it, what did I see as the biggest, highest thing on earth? A little white nub of a thing off on the sky line, just a size larger than my thumb. I'll back my Mt. Ruhamah against it any time when it has its snow on.Did the attorney Sukersley ever save anything for me from the wreck of the California Magazine? You re- |
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