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Letter from [author unknown] to John Muir, 1895 Dec 23.
No full textSomers, Dec. 23rd. 1895.Mr. John Muir,Your book “The Mountains of California” has given such pleasure to one reader that she wishes to express gratitude to the author. My trip was a limited one and taken many years ago, but so far as ray experience went, your book confirms and revives my impressions. It was read with keen enjoyment and sympathy and many another will follow its pages with the same zest. The lines were not inspired by the book, but perhaps they will be in touch with it. My name has no significance and so it is not signed, but perhaps it will gratify you to know that your descriptions have brought some of the glories you have seen to an obscure person in an obscure village.Merced.Merced, Merced, thy crystal waveO\u27er granite sands doth flow, Whereon the vagrant sunbeams weaveA net of gold below.Thy banks are daintily besetWith ferns and grasses fine And beds of snowy violetThe tangled roots entwine.The stately rocks (E1 CapitanCathedral, Brothers Three) Within thy bosom hold divanIn tranquil majesty.Unaltered \u27neath the flowing tideThose sharp reflections dwell; E\u27en so while busy lustrums glideEndures thy beauty\u27s spell.[Envelope containing letter inscribed, in Muir\u27s handwriting, “Miss No Name, Somers, Cal.”]02054https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25216/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [author unknown, geologist?] [1903?]
No full textThe beauty of our hills continues until cherry time, and the cars will bring you in an hour to Martinez.https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/44191/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [author unknown] to John Muir, [1910 May 26].
No full textLos Angeles California.Sixth Grade, Hoover St. School,May. 26, 1910.Dear Mr. Muir,— Our teacher has just finished your story of Stickeen . The first thing that the children asked after she had finished was, Why didn\u27t Stickeen\u27s master give the dog to Mr. Muir since they was so attached to each other . There being no way of finding out except by asking you I thought I would ask of you. If not inconvenient please write in answer to this letter to Hoover St. School, Los Angeles California.Your\u27s respectfully,Wilbur Parker.04767 (8)https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/31910/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [author unknown] to [John Muir], 1875 Apr 17.
No full text[4]We often thought of you These Hills and Mountains of solid granite rock with narrow valleys [ between?] often decending into lovely lakes was the general [illegible] of the county Beautiful rocky isles and islets without sti[illegible] in the main lake and wild tumultuous hills on the shore was the ever varying [ view?] of the [ tourist?] from Steamboat deck This was the natural home of the Mosses. Such mosses litchun and club mosses as I never saw anywhere else we brought a small cabinet of the different varieties with us From there we spent a year on [ Beaverton?] worked for a small joint [ clock?] Foundry Co of which Charles was the manager. Five visited us there and d[illegible] the molding shop a [little?] Hard times followed I took the next opening and came to this place in 1872 We unite with a Baptist Church here Have made quite a few friends and begin to feel considerably at home Upon the whole I think myself the recipient of more blessings than usually falls to the lot of ordinary humanity [1] Peterboro April 17 1875Dear Friend John I received your letter of the 21st Feb about ten days ago. I am very sorry to learn that you written me and others of us without answers As well as I remember it is about 4 or 5 years since I received any letter from Charles and Harriet received letters since all of which I think were answered promptly I am separated a considerable distance from the rest of us being about [100?] east of [illegible]https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/35452/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [author unknown] to John Muir, 1884 Apr 2
No full textDr. George Engelmann Born at Frankfurt on the Main, February 2nd, 1809 DIED, In the midst of his scientific labors at his more in St. Louis, on Monday, February 4th, 1884, in the seventy-fifth year of his age 3003 Locust Street, St. Louis March 10th, 1884https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/44166/thumbnail.jp
Letter from author unknown to Mary Bell, [ca. 1897?] .
No full text[letterhead][1]Dear Miss Bell,I saw Prof Bradley and worked him for all I could get. It will be impossible for him to write the leading article--he says that Miss Graydon of whom I spoke to you--should do that--but he promised to give us, in time for the December number, a complete bibliographical account of Mr. Muir, with appreciative comment. I think we are lucky in getting this, (which will in itself be of real literary06183[2][letterhead]literary value) as Prof Bradley is very busy this term. I am pretty sure that we can get Miss Graydon to write; these two, together with your contribution, ought to be a substantial basis upon which to build our hopesHow do you think the announcement ought to be made in the Prospectus. I thought of putting something like thisMuir NumberThe name of John Muir has long been prominently identified with California, its forests & mountains. The magazine will issue a special illustrated Muir number containing appreciative sketches of the naturalist\u27s life & work06183https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/25605/thumbnail.jp
Letter from [author unknown] to [recipient unknown], [1906 Apr] 18.
No full textEarthquakeSan Fran. 18- 315 PM San Fran without communication with [outside?] world since 11 am dead will number up in the thousands Goot has been asked for transports to bury the dead at sea to avoid plague the gas works exploded, entire city in flames from Montgomery St to the water front and south of Market street the ground is in a tremor and if another quake comes will wipe out the entire city, they are starting special trains from Los Angeles with Doctors and nurses etc. several small coast towns in ruins San Jose, Napa, Salinas, worst wrecked, [anyhow?] at Napa wrecked half the inmates killed and03714https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/jmcl/29692/thumbnail.jp
History of Schools in Gorham, Maine
Full text linkA handwritten history of schools in Gorham, Maine, probably written around 1878. Author unknown. The original document is followed by a typed transcription prepared by Special Collections staff in 2020
Superstitions, Proverbs and Notes From the Dietrich Family, 1939
Full text linkA handwritten set of notes documenting various stories and superstitions passed down within the Dietrich family, author unknown, dating from circa 1939. Within, the author documents a number of folk beliefs, riddles, proverbs, and anecdotal stories - many written in Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.https://digitalcommons.ursinus.edu/shoemaker_documents/1176/thumbnail.jp
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