Letter from Harry Fielding Reid to John Muir, 1891 Sep 17.
[1]Atlantic City, N.Y. Sept 17 1891My dear Prof. Muir,I am delighted you liked the photographs I sent you. I hope you will accept them as a mark of my friendship. How I should have enjoyed scrambling with you among the Sierras! We have spend the summer in the Adirondack Wilderness, west of the mount...
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| Summary: | [1]Atlantic City, N.Y. Sept 17 1891My dear Prof. Muir,I am delighted you liked the photographs I sent you. I hope you will accept them as a mark of my friendship. How I should have enjoyed scrambling with you among the Sierras! We have spend the summer in the Adirondack Wilderness, west of the mountains01529 [2]We went their for the health of Mrs Reid’s mother. it rained five days out often; and I concluded that one should go to Alaska if they want dry weather. I had an interesting letter from Miss [Scidmore?] a few days ago. I suppose you also have heard of the visit she and some friends made to our old camp. I was surprised that they found things in such good order. I shall be so interested [3][letterhead]in your article on the Glacier. My own work has not yet gone to press, but I hope it will very soon. Did I write you that the fastest motion of the ice that I found was 7 feet a day? The size of the instruments, their distance from the flags, etc. make it possible, tho’ not probable that this may be in error by two feet. The ice in01529 [4]Granite Canon puzzles me, and you are the only one who can set me straight. Does the ice slope down & terminate in the canon, or does it slope up & join the tributary glaciers on the mountain sides? I think the former is true; at any rate I am satisfied that the upper part of the canon is closed up & that the drainage is back under the ice into Muir Inlet. Cushing has gone to Germany to study for a year or more. The other “chimney-[illegible]"[5][letterhead]are at work in or near Cleveland, where I myself return in a day or two. Mrs Reid joins me in kind regards & I am very sincerely yoursHarry Fielding Reid.01529 |
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