Letter to Dewitt Miller, 1895 February 18.

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Letter to Dewitt Miller, 1895 February 18.

Muir thanks Miller for a copy of a Alice Morse Earle's review of "The mountains of California" and requests her address.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7914434

University of Virginia. Library

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Muir, John, 1838-1914

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John Muir (born April 21, 1838, Dunbar, Scotland – died December 24, 1914, Los Angeles, California), Scottish-born American naturalist, author, and early advocate of preservation of wilderness in the United States. His letters, essays, and books telling of his adventures in nature, especially in the Sierra Nevada mountains of California, have been read by millions. His activism helped to preserve the Yosemite Valley, Sequoia National Park and other wilderness areas. The Sierra Club, which h...

Miller, Dewitt, 1857-1911

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This might be J. DeWitt Miller, who was also a correspondent of Horace Howard Furness, Jr. From the description of Letter to Horace Howard Furness, n.d. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155885389 Dewitt Miller was a book collector, lecturer, and critic. He compiled these scrapbooks about the theatrical production of the novel, Trilby, which became one of the best-selling books of the nineteenth century. The novel's villain, Svengali, is a demonic hyp...

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911

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American writer, social historian and antiquarian. From the description of Alice Morse Earle letters [manuscript], 1895-1896 (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 174964715 Alice Morse Earle (1851-1911), nee Mary Alice Morse, author, antiquarian, and social historian, was born in Worcester, Mass., on 17 April 1851, the daughter of Edwin Morse (1815-1891) and Abigail Mason Clary Morse ( -1881). She was the sister of Frances Clary Morse ( -1933) and the ha...