Land Grant Application- Sargent, Charles (South Berwick)

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Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1906 Dec 13.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., December 13, 1906.My dear Muir:Are you dead or asleep at the switch? or what has become of you? It is months since I have heard from you. Please make some sign and let me know that you are well and that your daughter is better or I hope entirely recovered.I had rather hoped to go to South Africa this winter to get away from the cold and to see some more of the world, but I have had too much to do here in the Arboretum with Crataegus and other things to make it possible to get away, so I am staying at home to my great regret and trying to clear up the great amount of material which has been accumulating here of late. After this, if I have luck, I do not want to pass any more winters in this sort of climate. When are you coming east and why don\u27t you go and see the Andes?Faithfully yours,C.S.[illegible]John Muir, Esq., Martinez, Cal.0378

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1900 May 28.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD.UNIVERSITYJamaica Plain, Mass, February 13, 1900My dear Muir:I am delighted to get your letter of the 21st. Your letters always oheer and inspire me and I wish I could get more of them. I wish, too, I could go to California this summer and see the Redwoods again hut I must stay at home and do some hard work between now and the middle of September when I suppose I must start forth again to hunt for Crataegus. I shall certainly be able to throw a good deal of light on the genus before I get done with it but it is giving me a lot of bother and anxiety. Still I suppose I might as well do that as anything else, it is all in a lifetime. Why don\u27t you arrange to pass the autumn in the east? I will show you a country you haven\u27t seen before and I am sure it will do us both good to have a trip together again.It is a glorious season and everything is blooming like mad In my remembrance there has never been such a year before and the country is simply beautiful.I am very keen about a Redwood reservation. Half a dozen rich men might get together and buy two or three hundred thousand acres and never feel it. This I think is what we ought to work for and I am putting out a few hints which may or may not produce results. This it seems to me is a thing well worth fighting for. Is there anything better that you and I can accomplish than the preservation[02696] ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 2 of some of these noble trees?I have made a contract with Houghton, Mifflin & Company for The new tree book and Faxon has been hard at work on the illustrations for the last three months. It will take him, I suppose, a couple of years to make the six hundred drawings. They are going to be beauties and I hope the book will prove useful. I have got lots of other schemes on hand but [illegible] sadly lacking in time and strength to do all I ought to accomplish during the next ten years.Write often to your faithful friend,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.Martinez, Cal.[02696

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1902 Mar 29.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain, Mass.,……………March 29……,1902.Dear Muir:What in the world has become of you in all these months? Have you passed on to another world or are you shut up somewhere in this one beyond the reach of pen and paper? Let me know what you are about and when you are coming east to learn something about Crataegus.So far as The Silva is concerned it is off my hands at last, and I am just putting the finishing touches on volume xiv. The two final volumes will be out in the course of a month or two, I hope, or as soon as we can get the last engraving done in Paris. Are you getting ready for the greatest effort of your life in the way of a review of The Silva, to be published in The Atlantic? You know you promised this long ago to the publishers. Really there is no one else in the country who can do the subject justice.Will you be ready in a year from this time to start on our trip over the Siberian Railroad? This is business. I mean to go and I want you to go with me, Leaving here in April and going via Europe you ought to be at home again in California by Christmas time. Lots of new trees to see on this trip. Here is the great opportunity of your life to prove that you are really not the quitter you have the reputation of being.Canby has not been well, I am afraid, this winter and the cares of life are beginning to bother him. I hope, however, we shall02974 PAGE-02ARNOLD ARBORETUM.get off next month for a few weeks in some good Crataegus country as Crataegus is far from being exhausted,[illegible]Faithfully yours,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.Martinez, Cal.0297

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1907 Aug 13.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain, Mass., August 13, 1907.My dear Muir:I am just back from the other side and find your letters of July 7th. I had nearly four weeks there and saw Ireland for the first time. It is a beautiful country and trees grow wonderfully well there, especially those from Chili and from our northwest coast.I too want very much to go to South Africa, and my daughter wants to go with me. We thought somewhat of going last winter but had to give it up, and I do not Know as I can go this winter for I cannot shake off this confounded Crataegus business which I fear or is going to shorten my life, or at any rate deprive me of a good deal of pleasure in other directions. Mexico we certainly ought to manage.I am glad to hear that your daughter is improving, and as you say nothing about it I judge that you are well yourself.Faithfully yours,C. S. SargentJohn Muir, Esq.,Martinez, Cal.0391

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1909 Jul 12.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY,Jamaica Plain,Mass., JUly 12, 1909.My dear Muir:I am writing to tell you that our traveling companion [illegible] Is engaged to be married to a Miss de Acosta of New York, a very attractive young lady of Spanish origin. He expects to be married in November and is to live on the place in Brookline. How are you getting on and particularly how is your daughter? I hope improved by her stay in Arizona.I was in to see Houghton, Mifflin & Company the other day and they gave me a copy of your dog story. I have read it again with delight. It seemed to me better than ever. Houghton & Mifflin have hopes of another book or books from you. Are you working on them and how are you getting on with them? Do not delay too long for time is passing and there is no time like the present for work.Please remember me to your daughters, and believe me. always, dear Muir,Faithfully yours,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.,Martinez, Cal.0454

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1900 May 4.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD.UNIVERSITYJamaica Plain, Mass, March 5, 1900My dear Muir;I am back at last,after seven weeks\u27 absence In the southern woods,to find your two letters. I am sorry if I have appeared peevish. I daresay the accusation is well taken. Perhaps you would be peevish If you had Crataegus on your hands, to say nothing of lots of Other new species,turning up constantly in all parts of the country and all demanding a place in The Silva which I had supposed and hoped was finished a year ago. It will take me all this year to complete it if I do the best I can, and I doubt if it can be done this year.Canby only stayed with me threo weeks, so a considorarle part of my journey was a lonely one. Wo had bad weather most of thetime but saw wonderful displays of flowers; indeed it is the greatest flowering season in the east I have ever known and this makes me doubly sorry that you did not join us. We made a short excursion from Texas into Mexico, going only as far as Monterey. We saw enough, however, in the way of trees and scenery to show that Mexico is a place to visit in detail,and If you can ever throw off your had habit of sitting [illegible] in chairs and writing magazine articles we must go together and spend a summer south of the Rio GrandeI like your last article well. The Emerson episode is admirably well done and will find favor,I am sure,with many New England[illegible][02692] ARNOLD ARBORETUM. 2 I am pushed and bothered over a thousand different things and it would do me more good to pass a few days with you than anythin. and it would do me more good to pass a few days with you than anything else I can think of.Is there no hope of your having courage and energy enough to cross the Rocky Mountains this year?Your friend Pinchot seems to be making a great deal of sti in the world and I see that he 4rs state [illegible]. 4he only person in the country who knows anything about forests and forestry. I should sup. pose he was pretty near the end of his tether by this time.Why don\u27t we get up a syndicate to purchase a big block of the Redwood forest to bo held by trustees for the benefit of the public for all time? Here is an opportunity for some rich man to immortalize himself.Faithfu11y yours,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.Martinez, Cal.[02692

Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1903 Mar 9.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 9, 1903My dear Muir:I am delighted to learn from your letter of the 2nd that you are good for the Siberian trip. You need not give any thought to any of the troublesome details which seem to worry you. All you have got to do is to appear here not later than the 15th with your gripsack and the $5000. which we will deposit in Boston to your credit I would suggest, however, that if you have a boot-maker in San Francisco who makes the sort of boots you like it would be a good idea for you to provide yourself with a pairs of good comfortable ones before you leave home. Of course you can have them made here or you can get them in London, but I think it is always wiser to go to a man who understands the peculiarities of one\u27s feet.It is a very great pleasure to me that we are likely to see so much of each other this year and your going adds immensely to the possibilities of the journey.Glad to hear that your labors over The Silva are finished. I have no doubt you have written the best thing that has been said about it. I have already engaged passage for you and will attend to your passport, etc., in due time.Always faithfully yours,[illegible]John Muir, Esq.Martinez, Cal.[03178

Letter from C[harles] S. Sargent to John Muir, 1904 Jul 11.

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.Jamaica Plain, Mass., July 11, 1904.My dear Muir:I am much obliged for your letter of July 6th and the information about our St. Petersburg friend who, on the whole, was about as satisfactory a Russian as we encountered.You can very well talk about making descriptions short and sharp and crystal clear. If any one can understand what I have written they will do better than I can. Color touches all left out as we are very short of space. The illustrations are really good and instructive, and I hope the keys will prove useful. I have in type all the Conifers, the Oaks, Willows, Birches, Poplars. Hickories, and several of the other troublesome groups. I have just now reached your old friend Crataegus, which is worse than the hot wave which is now upon us.I should have written you before that every member of the family is in excellent condition, including Alice who apparently has been greatly benefitted by her escapade of last summer. Mrs. Sargent is soon starting for Islesboro, but I don\u27t see any prospect of my getting away for a long time, although I must try and find a few new Crataeguses this autumn or you will be dissatisfied.With kind regards to your family,Faithfully yours,[Illegible]John Muir, Esq.,Martinez, Cal.0340