Manuscripts
John Muir letter to Katharine Putnam Hooker
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John Muir letter to Katharine Putnam Hooker
Manuscripts
In this letter to his friend Katherine Hooker, John Muir responds to the news that she is sick in bed with some surprise as she seems so strong to him. He suggests rest and then "plain pure white love-work" with Marian (Dr, Marian Osgood Hooker) tending to their fellow creatures. Muir is glad that Marian is not with him as yellow fever and malaria are rampant. Muir briefly describes life on the river with him staring and sketching. Muir described a week of beauty and fellowship at Manaos on the Rio Negro tributary. He ends the letter with a surprise find of a copy of Katherine's book, Wayfarers in Italy in a lonely house in the Amazon Basin. He fears telling the story in full as Marian might think he's in a fever dream.
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John Muir letter to [Clara] Barrus
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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Katharine Putnam Hooker photograph collection
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs relating to the life of Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her husband, John Daggett Hooker (1838-1911), and their daughter Marian Osgood Hooker (1875-1968), an amateur photographer who made many of the photographs in the collection. The majority of the collection shows Hooker family, friends and associates at the large Hooker family residence and garden, 325 West Adams Street, Los Angeles. Some of the friends include George Ellery Hale, Margaret Collier Graham (copy photograph only), John Muir, and Jules Simoneau. There are group portraits of Marian Hooker with other students of the graduating class of 1894 of the Marlborough School, a private Los Angeles girl's school. The girls are identified as: Mary Hardy, Henriette Vischer, Marian Hooker, Alice Paul and Bessie Ellis. Other posed group photographs show young women in costumes of traditional Japanese and Turkish clothing (ca. 1893-1894) or posed and dressed as "Lphigenie" (1906). There are also family groups dining on the porch; a female group outing to Echo Mountain; Katharine Putnam Hooker working on bookbinding; and views of the house and grounds when it became "Miss (Maude) Thomas' School" (St. Catherine's), (ca. 1910). A portion of the collection features scenic views made by Marian on outings around Southern California: Death Valley; Red Rock Canyon; Balboa; Catalina Island; Bear Valley; El Molino Viejo in San Marino and an adobe out building; street views of West Adams Street in central Los Angeles; and residences and streets in Pasadena. There is one folder of miscellaneous card photographs, mostly unidentified. One view shows a group of African American children sitting on a wood fence in front of a shack. There are also two mounted prints of the house occupied by General George Washington in Morristown, New Jersey.
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The Life and Letters of John Muir: Volume II by William Frederic Badè (Boston and New York: Houghton Mifflin Company)
Rare Books
Manuscript specimen Fragment of page 7 from a draft of chapter 7, page 146: "forest shadows upon a delightful purple level, lying smooth + free in the light like a lake. This is a glacier meadow. It is about a mile + a half long by a quarter of a mile wide. The trees come pressing forward all around in close serried ranks + plant their feet exactly on its margin, holding them-" Added images • Color frontispiece (same image as facing page 360): Wapama Falls (1700 feet) in Hetch-Hetchy Valley • Facing page 12: "Sand Embroidery." • Facing page 28: Merced Lake. [Formerly Shadow Lake] • Facing page 56: Early Snow in Yosemite. • Facing page 80: A Sierra Forest. • Facing page 88: Canyon of the South Fork of Kings River. • Facing page 100b: Lake Tahoe. • Facing page 104: On the Nevada Desert. • Facing page 110: In the Southern Utah Desert. • Facing page 144: Victoria from the Harbor. • Facing page 150: Approaching Sitka through Peril Strait. • Facing page 152: Ft. Wrangell. • Facing page 160: At the Foot of Muir Glacier. • Facing page 176: Arctic Grouse. • Facing page 200: Kings River Canyon. • Facing page 232: Mount Rainier. • Facing page 266: Sleepy Hollow Cemetery at Concord. • Facing page 268: On Professor Sargent's Grounds, Brookline, Mass. • Facing page 304: Along Paradise Creek in the Canadian Rockies, between Banff and Glacier. • Facing page 310: Along the Crest of the Blue Ridge in the Alleghany Mountains, above Luray. • Facing page 322: Father Duncan. • Facing page 324: Sitka Harbor. • Facing page 326: Mountain View above Yakutat Bay. • Facing page 352: Mr. Muir on a Sierra Club Outing. • Facing page 382: Mr. Muir at his Martinez Home in October, 1913. • Facing page 410: President Roosevelt and John Muir, with party, at the foot of a Giant Sequoia. • Facing page 422: A Smooth-barked Eucalyptus by Mr. Muir's Grave on the Alhambra Ranch.
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John Muir letters
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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John Muir letters
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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