Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 May 3.
3The reply to this letter was written by Mrs Agassiz in which she told me that when Agassiz read my letter he said excitedly Here is the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action. Also that he told her to say in reply to my invitation that if he should accept it n...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-25651 2023-06-11T04:13:54+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 May 3. Muir, John 1895-05-03T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/718 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/25651/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/718 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/25651/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1895 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:43:37Z 3The reply to this letter was written by Mrs Agassiz in which she told me that when Agassiz read my letter he said excitedly Here is the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action. Also that he told her to say in reply to my invitation that if he should accept it now he could not spend more than six months with me at most. That he would rather go home now but next year he would come & spend all summer with me. But as you know he went home to die.Shortly afterward I came down out of my haunts to Oakland & there met Joseph Le Conte whom I had led to the Lyell Glacier a few months before Agassiz' arrival He (Le Conte) told me that in the course of a conversation with Agassiz on the geology of the Sierra he told him that a young man by the name of Muir studying up thereBancroft Library https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25651/thumbnail.jpg Text Lyell Glacier University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Lyell Glacier ENVELOPE(-36.617,-36.617,-54.299,-54.299) Underwood ENVELOPE(49.350,49.350,-68.133,-68.133) |
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3The reply to this letter was written by Mrs Agassiz in which she told me that when Agassiz read my letter he said excitedly Here is the first man I have ever found who has any adequate conception of glacial action. Also that he told her to say in reply to my invitation that if he should accept it now he could not spend more than six months with me at most. That he would rather go home now but next year he would come & spend all summer with me. But as you know he went home to die.Shortly afterward I came down out of my haunts to Oakland & there met Joseph Le Conte whom I had led to the Lyell Glacier a few months before Agassiz' arrival He (Le Conte) told me that in the course of a conversation with Agassiz on the geology of the Sierra he told him that a young man by the name of Muir studying up thereBancroft Library https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25651/thumbnail.jpg |
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