Letter from [John Muir] to [Harry Fielding] Reid, [1901 Jan]

[First draft of letter, in note-book #69] (80)[Harry Fielding Reid]My dear Mr, Reid: [Jan, 1901]The funny fake about the destruction of the Alaska glaciers by the earthquake of Sep. 1900? was believed and swallowed by most everybody, and I have been commiserated and consoled with at a great rate eve...

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Main Author: Muir, John
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: Scholarly Commons 1901
Subjects:
Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Taku
glacier
glaciers
Alaska
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spelling ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-5402 2023-10-01T03:56:06+02:00 Letter from [John Muir] to [Harry Fielding] Reid, [1901 Jan] Muir, John 1901-01-31T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4386 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/5402/viewcontent/muir11_0593_trans.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4386 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/5402/viewcontent/muir11_0593_trans.pdf The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html John Muir Correspondence (PDFs) Environmentalist naturalist travel conservation national parks John Muir history correspondence letters text 1901 ftunivpacificdc 2023-09-02T22:33:59Z [First draft of letter, in note-book #69] (80)[Harry Fielding Reid]My dear Mr, Reid: [Jan, 1901]The funny fake about the destruction of the Alaska glaciers by the earthquake of Sep. 1900? was believed and swallowed by most everybody, and I have been commiserated and consoled with at a great rate ever since on the loss of the poor fragile Muir Glacier. I have been busy telling the mourners to dry their tears for as far as earthquakes are concerned glaciers are less destructible than the mountains. Excepting the premature discharge of bergs I can conceive of no other effects likely to be caused by a shake, but I have no authentic information. I can easily believe that a big mass has fallen from the front of the Windam Glacier, for on the very day of my first visit to the Taku glaciers a large mass fell from the undermined part of the snow over the main draining stream damming it.[John Muir][See Travels in Alaska, p. 240]02890 Text glacier glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Taku ENVELOPE(-133.854,-133.854,59.633,59.633)
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naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
spellingShingle Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Muir, John
Letter from [John Muir] to [Harry Fielding] Reid, [1901 Jan]
topic_facet Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
description [First draft of letter, in note-book #69] (80)[Harry Fielding Reid]My dear Mr, Reid: [Jan, 1901]The funny fake about the destruction of the Alaska glaciers by the earthquake of Sep. 1900? was believed and swallowed by most everybody, and I have been commiserated and consoled with at a great rate ever since on the loss of the poor fragile Muir Glacier. I have been busy telling the mourners to dry their tears for as far as earthquakes are concerned glaciers are less destructible than the mountains. Excepting the premature discharge of bergs I can conceive of no other effects likely to be caused by a shake, but I have no authentic information. I can easily believe that a big mass has fallen from the front of the Windam Glacier, for on the very day of my first visit to the Taku glaciers a large mass fell from the undermined part of the snow over the main draining stream damming it.[John Muir][See Travels in Alaska, p. 240]02890
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title_full Letter from [John Muir] to [Harry Fielding] Reid, [1901 Jan]
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op_rights 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
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