Letter from John Muir to [Fay H.] Sellers, 1894 Oct 3.

[2]in a week. I have not yet seen it & dont know whether it has any portrait in it or not never having said a word on the subject to the publishers. However I have a half dozen more vols to write & this photograph may yet be engraved.This is a popular book & easily read, though a good de...

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Main Author:	Muir, John
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spelling	ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-26305 2023-06-11T04:11:53+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Fay H.] Sellers, 1894 Oct 3. Muir, John 1894-10-03T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/1372 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/26305/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/1372 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/26305/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1894 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:44:01Z [2]in a week. I have not yet seen it & dont know whether it has any portrait in it or not never having said a word on the subject to the publishers. However I have a half dozen more vols to write & this photograph may yet be engraved.This is a popular book & easily read, though a good deal of science lurks in it unseen covered with brush & words. One of the chapters was scientific but by advice of the publishers I took it out, for use in another volume.I have been at the ranch all summer, reading proof, [bossing?] Chinese etc. so comparatively[3]2this has been a barren year not a single glacier in it or piece of wild woods or garden though I have seen the wilderness at times in dreams & have heard the hum of bees in the bryanthus beds on top of the Alaska mountains.The winds in the woods & the boom & crack & roar of avalanches & icebergs on the slopes of the peaks & at the heads of the icy fiords, notwithstanding this summer has been Saharaly hot I have been hibernating--living on the fat of better times like a bear in its denI had a pleasant letter a week or two ago from your friend Rusk of Pasadena in which our charming evenings at your home last summer were lovingly rememberedI often see Keith--& he always https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/26305/thumbnail.jpg Text glacier Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons
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description	[2]in a week. I have not yet seen it & dont know whether it has any portrait in it or not never having said a word on the subject to the publishers. However I have a half dozen more vols to write & this photograph may yet be engraved.This is a popular book & easily read, though a good deal of science lurks in it unseen covered with brush & words. One of the chapters was scientific but by advice of the publishers I took it out, for use in another volume.I have been at the ranch all summer, reading proof, [bossing?] Chinese etc. so comparatively[3]2this has been a barren year not a single glacier in it or piece of wild woods or garden though I have seen the wilderness at times in dreams & have heard the hum of bees in the bryanthus beds on top of the Alaska mountains.The winds in the woods & the boom & crack & roar of avalanches & icebergs on the slopes of the peaks & at the heads of the icy fiords, notwithstanding this summer has been Saharaly hot I have been hibernating--living on the fat of better times like a bear in its denI had a pleasant letter a week or two ago from your friend Rusk of Pasadena in which our charming evenings at your home last summer were lovingly rememberedI often see Keith--& he always https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/26305/thumbnail.jpg
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Letter from John Muir to [Fay H.] Sellers, 1894 Oct 3.

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