Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16.
920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There...
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ftunivpacificmsl:oai:scholarlycommons.pacific.edu:jmcl-43707 2023-06-11T04:12:00+02:00 Letter from John Muir to [Asa] Gray, 1880 Mar 16. Muir, John 1880-03-16T07:52:58Z image/jpeg https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18772 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43707/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg eng eng Scholarly Commons https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/18772 https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/jmcl/article/43707/type/native/viewcontent/fullsize.jpg The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1880 ftunivpacificmsl 2023-05-06T22:57:19Z 920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There can hardly be less than 10,000 big & little in the territory. counted over 200 from one standpoint. The forest are magnificent That cupressus we found about Shasta is not [Nootkatensis?]. Have just been comparing them. Found specimens in Alaska 150 miles [at?] of Wrangel 150 ft high [6?] ft diameter. Ever cordially yrs John Muir https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43707/thumbnail.jpg Text glaciers Alaska University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law: Scholarly Commons |
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920 Valencia St. [Muir?]San Francisco.March 16th 1880.Dear Gray,I send you here a few odds & ends from Southeastern Alaska Please send back a specimen of each or fragment named. Had a glorious summer among the glaciers. Found ten that flowed majestically into the sea & sends off bergs. There can hardly be less than 10,000 big & little in the territory. counted over 200 from one standpoint. The forest are magnificent That cupressus we found about Shasta is not [Nootkatensis?]. Have just been comparing them. Found specimens in Alaska 150 miles [at?] of Wrangel 150 ft high [6?] ft diameter. Ever cordially yrs John Muir https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/43707/thumbnail.jpg |
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