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San Marino, CA 91108
Rare Books
The wilderness world of John Muir
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (FAC 624).
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Manuscripts
The collection consists of letters, including 22 autograph letters, from 1902 to 1913, from Muir to his daughter, Helen Muir Funk. There is also correspondence with Enos Abijah Mills, J. Marshall Watkins, and the John Muir Association, and photocopies of Muir's Thousand mile journey (mssFAC 624).
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Manuscripts
John Muir wrote this letter to Clara Barrus, a physician with the state psychiatric hospital in Middleton, New York, from Martinez, California on September 23, 1909. In this letter, Muir writes that he is "glad to hear my little books are considered worth reading and have helped to incite others to go forth and see God's handiwork for themselves." He also mentions a letter from John Burroughs, an American naturalist and nature essayist, in which Burroughs has finished at least one article about the Grand Canyon in Arizona. Muir also hopes that Burroughs will next write about Yosemite. He closes the letter about the health of a woman named Helen, who is doing well.
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Rare Books
This collection consists of an extra-illustrated set of the 10-volume The Writings of John Muir : Manuscript Edition (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1916-1924), identified as set number 126 of 750 (of the standard edition). Tipped into each volume is: A manuscript fragment from a draft of "The Glacier Meadow," chapter 7 in The Mountains of California in John Muir's hand. A hand-colored photogravure frontispiece of one of the illustrations within the volume. 26 to 27 additional platinum prints, each preceded by a page containing a typescript title and corresponding quotation from the text. The added images (in addition to the 114 photogravure plates originally included with the set) include 260 platinum photographic prints chiefly by photographer Herbert W. Gleason (1855-1937), which correspond to the text. Images chiefly consist of landscapes related to Muir's travels and writings about the American West, including Alaska, California, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington; as well as close-up photographs of animals and plants. While most of the images depict natural scenery, there are a few photographs of Muir or specific buildings or individuals related to his life, as well as two photographs each depicting an unidentified man and woman: "Agate Stumps in Yellowstone Park" (Volume 6, facing page 68) and "An Artesian Well. [Part of the water supply of the city of Ogden, Utah]" (volume 8, facing page 162). The compiler of this extra-illustrated set is unidentified but may have been Gleason. There are similarities between some of the typescript titles and the original envelope titles created by Gleason for his negatives in the Robbins-Mills Collection of Herbert Wendell Gleason Photographic Negatives at the Concord Free Public Library. Each copyright page has the printed text "Edition Limited to Seven Hundred and Fifty Copies This is Number 126." All of the volumes are stamped on the verso of flyleaf, "Bound at the Riverside Press."
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