Letter from John Muir to C. Hart Merriam, 1900 Oct 23.

To Dr. C. Hart MerriamMartinez, Cal. Oct. 23, 1900.My dear Dr. Merriam,I am very glad to get your kind letter bringing back our big little Sierra trip through the midst of so many blessed chipmunks and trees. Many thanks for your care and kindness about the photographs and for the pile of interesting bird and beast Bulletins. No. 3 contains lots of masterly work and might be expanded into a grand book. This you should do, adding and modifying in accordance with the knowledge you have gathered during the last ten years. Bat Alas.9 Here you are pegging and puttering with the concerns of others as if in length of life you expect to rival Sequoia. That stream and fountain article, which like Tennyson\u27s brook threatened to go on forever, is at last done, and I am now among the Big Tree parks. Not the man with the hoe, but the poor toiler with the pen deserves milt-long commiseration in prose and rhyme.Give my kindest regards to Mrs. and Mr. Bailey and tell them I\u27ll go guide with them to Yosemite whenever they like unless I should happen to be hopelessly tied up in some way.With pleasant recollections from Mrs. Muir and the girlsI am very truly yours,JOHN MUIRCharlie Keeler has got out another nice new book (Poems).[1 North Am.Fauna No. 3 - Result of a Biological Survey of San Francisco Mt. & the Desert of the Little Colorado, Arizona. By C. Hart Merriam. Sept. 1900.]2 Fountains and Streams of the Yosemite National Park0274