Letter from Dorothea [Draper et al.] to John Muir, 1899 Oct 28.

• Main Author: Draper, Dorothea
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Scholarly Commons 1899
• Subjects: Environmentalist; naturalist; travel; conservation; national parks; John Muir; history; correspondence; letters; Patience; Draper; glacier; Alaska
• Online Access: https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2463; https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/context/muir-correspondence/article/3462/viewcontent/muir10_1047_let.pdf

[1]ArdenOrange CountyNew YorkOctober 28t 1899Dear Mr. MuirThe reason that the G.Q. have not answered your letter was that we hesitated to attempt to cope with your overflowing poetical genious, and felt that we [would?] all wait until we assembled and put our wits together to reply.A handwriting02637[2][sharp?] would revel in the incongruity of the styles but we hardly dare to hope that such a well-rounded, published and glaciated poet will take the same delight, now you are in for it, & will have to read with patience this lenghty document.Your "deadly enemy", John Bourroughs, has been here, and has won us all over to his side, so you will surely have to come east post haste, to counteract02637[3]his bad influence. He did give me a beautiful start on one line of nature, and which I am surely going to follow up, especially after your advice.You certainly converted us all in that respect but Dr. Converse seems to have run in the wrong directon & wonder why? Perhaps because the glacier chill had seized you he thought!Beth is so witty that it quite overpowers a plain ordi-02637 [4]nary person like me and I am at a loss how to keep up with her. It is perfectly great to be with the other G.Q's one more and as you may easily imagine our principal delight in talking over the trip and the people of this summer.We are soon going to play the great Scotch game - golf for which02637[5]I must get ready so I will relieve you and remain with loveDorotheaIt is sad that we have to wind up so soon, but in the country young people have to be out in the air a good deal. We have seen various numbers of the H.A.E.B. lately, & all look well, but when we get together it is impossible to refrain for talking of the trip & all the sight of Alaska. I have heard02637[6]that at the time of the earthquake there the Muir Glacier had entirely disappeared but hope it is not true, for it would be too sad to think of that wonderful glacier having been destroyed.It is time to stop now for Mary wants to add a line.With ...