Letter from John Muir to [William] Kent, 1908 Feb 6.
Martinez, Feb. 6, 1908[in margin: illegible]Dear Mr Kent:Seeing my name in the tender & deed of the Tamalpais Sequoias was a surprise of the pleasantest kind. This is the best tree-lover's monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world. You have done me great honor, &...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-30470 2023-06-11T04:09:27+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [William] Kent, 1908 Feb 6. Muir, John 1908-02-06T08:00:00Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/5537 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/30470/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/5537 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/30470/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1908 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:46:57Z Martinez, Feb. 6, 1908[in margin: illegible]Dear Mr Kent:Seeing my name in the tender & deed of the Tamalpais Sequoias was a surprise of the pleasantest kind. This is the best tree-lover's monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world. You have done me great honor, & I am proud of it. Schools here & there have planted "Muir trees" in their playgrounds, & long ago Asa Gray named several plants for me; the most interesting of which is a sturdy frost-enduring daisy that I discovered on the shore of the Arctic Ocean near Icy Cape; a Sierra peak also & one of the Alaska glaciers bears my name, but these aboriginal woods, barring human action, will outlast them all, even the mountain & glacier. Compared with Sequoia glaciers are young fleeting things, & since the first Sequoia forests lifted their https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/30470/thumbnail.jpg Text Arctic Arctic Ocean glacier glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons Arctic Arctic Ocean |
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Martinez, Feb. 6, 1908[in margin: illegible]Dear Mr Kent:Seeing my name in the tender & deed of the Tamalpais Sequoias was a surprise of the pleasantest kind. This is the best tree-lover's monument that could possibly be found in all the forests of the world. You have done me great honor, & I am proud of it. Schools here & there have planted "Muir trees" in their playgrounds, & long ago Asa Gray named several plants for me; the most interesting of which is a sturdy frost-enduring daisy that I discovered on the shore of the Arctic Ocean near Icy Cape; a Sierra peak also & one of the Alaska glaciers bears my name, but these aboriginal woods, barring human action, will outlast them all, even the mountain & glacier. Compared with Sequoia glaciers are young fleeting things, & since the first Sequoia forests lifted their https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/30470/thumbnail.jpg |
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