Letter from John Muir to [Horatio N.] Rust, 1894 Oct 2.

Martinez Oct 2, 1894My dear Mr Rust,I am glad to hear from you & recall our pleasant evening at Col Sellers. I had a very good time in Europe, saw the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland & the principal fiords of Norway in a general way. Also Old Scotland & Ireland & England, meeti...

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Main Author: Muir, John
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Language:English
Published: Scholarly Commons 1894
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Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Norway
glacier
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spelling ftunivpacificdc:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:muir-correspondence-8241 2023-10-01T03:56:09+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Horatio N.] Rust, 1894 Oct 2. Muir, John 1894-10-02T08:00:00Z application/pdf https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6890 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/8241/viewcontent/muir08_0417.pdf eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6890 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/8241/viewcontent/muir08_0417.pdf The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1894 ftunivpacificdc 2023-09-02T22:37:02Z Martinez Oct 2, 1894My dear Mr Rust,I am glad to hear from you & recall our pleasant evening at Col Sellers. I had a very good time in Europe, saw the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland & the principal fiords of Norway in a general way. Also Old Scotland & Ireland & England, meeting many interesting people etc etcThanks for your kind "perpetual invitation to visit you & do not fail to find me when you come to San Francisco, Martinez is only an hour & a half from there.Mrs. Sellers has been very sick, in bed a month as I learned by a letter received a day or two ago, but is now well & goes to the Wis Clubhouse.I do not remember noticing any superficial traces of ice-action on the San Gabriel rocks, such as polished or scratched surfaces; but of the more enduring traces--drift, glacial forms of the rocks, & general glacial sculpture. those I saw everywhere.As to that lily I think it was the Humboldt, but it is so long since I saw it and as I have no specimen I hesitate to speak positively The Humboldt however is so well marked in its character you can have no difficulty in identifying it from those growing in Mrs. Conger's garden from bulbs I brought down. Or you can run up Eaton Creek & near its head find them growing in glorious abundance.I have been busy this summer with a book which will be out this month published by the Century Co.I dont believe there is a glacier on Greyback however smallWith cordial regards and pleasant memoriesI am yours trulyJohn Muir Text glacier University of the Pacific: Scholarly Commons Norway
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naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
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naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
Muir, John
Letter from John Muir to [Horatio N.] Rust, 1894 Oct 2.
topic_facet Environmentalist
naturalist
travel
conservation
national parks
John Muir
history
correspondence
letters
description Martinez Oct 2, 1894My dear Mr Rust,I am glad to hear from you & recall our pleasant evening at Col Sellers. I had a very good time in Europe, saw the glaciers and mountains of Switzerland & the principal fiords of Norway in a general way. Also Old Scotland & Ireland & England, meeting many interesting people etc etcThanks for your kind "perpetual invitation to visit you & do not fail to find me when you come to San Francisco, Martinez is only an hour & a half from there.Mrs. Sellers has been very sick, in bed a month as I learned by a letter received a day or two ago, but is now well & goes to the Wis Clubhouse.I do not remember noticing any superficial traces of ice-action on the San Gabriel rocks, such as polished or scratched surfaces; but of the more enduring traces--drift, glacial forms of the rocks, & general glacial sculpture. those I saw everywhere.As to that lily I think it was the Humboldt, but it is so long since I saw it and as I have no specimen I hesitate to speak positively The Humboldt however is so well marked in its character you can have no difficulty in identifying it from those growing in Mrs. Conger's garden from bulbs I brought down. Or you can run up Eaton Creek & near its head find them growing in glorious abundance.I have been busy this summer with a book which will be out this month published by the Century Co.I dont believe there is a glacier on Greyback however smallWith cordial regards and pleasant memoriesI am yours trulyJohn Muir
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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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