ConcordFree Public Library H.w gleason / Acadia n.p. NKLAYCHI R579/2071407-39 Audia. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR was NATIONAL PARK SERVICE Sieur de Monts NATIONAL MONUMENT OFFICE OF THE CUSTODIAN Bar Harbor, Maine. December 2 191 8 My dear Mr. Albright: Halia I am translating your Italian pamphlets and mill re- CBD resulator turn them to you with their translation when I have them done. Icter I should like to get out a brief account of our orn work here, with a few attractive illustrations, and send it over in fair quantity for distribution among the people taking active part in the movement there. I am using my own house as office now, as I "neld up a new system of winter heating I bad planned while there seemed uncertainty with regard to the lease we had arranged of the wild Gardens of icadia Building, but after our talk about it was the other day in Washington, which save me assurance in regard to it, I telegraphed down to take up the mori again and it should be completed shortly. I am putting in a hot-water system which will make it comfortable hencefor th at any season. It has a summy exposure, too, and one sheltered from the cold winds. TYNOLLYN THE I am writing II. Mather also a letter by this mail, with regard to Mr. Gleason's contract, which I commend to your attention should Mr. Watner not yet have returned to Washing ton. Lir. Gleason planned to write him himself unon the nt- ter in the same sense, and probably has already done so. He found the November light in this northern latitude too faint - even when the days are clear - for doing his best work and only tools a few pictures upon this trip that satisfied him, although making a thorough study with me, so for as the time enabled, of the opportunities the Park presents for future work. Fie is ambitious to make this a record piece of work, moreover, and ex- pend his best skill upon it. It will be advisable accordingly to so modify the contract as to enable him to be paid pro rata for the pictures as he gets them and they are approved DJ Hr. Mather. He has a few already, and will come down again to get others in the winter time, which I am anxious to secure, but he will not finish his collection until spring has come. Sincerely yours, II. Horace M. Albright, Assistant Director, National Park Service, [George B.DovR] Washington, D. C. THNOLLYN HILLY Don Thelan d 182 HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota Archives ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND NATURE-STUDY Thomas S. Roberts :Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Mt. Monadnock The Wonderland of Southern Utah Natural History Correspondence Our National Parks Grand Canyon of the Colorado The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California - The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California - Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. March 5, 1923. * Curator My dear Dr. Roberts: (1913- You have been so incautious as to speak in complimentary Unsum of terms of my story-telling, and I. therefore inflict upon you another screed Natural History which appeared in the Boston Transcript the other day. I had the page re- printed separately on better paper, hoping to bring the half-tones out in better shape; but newspaper cuts are pretty bum, as a rule, and I cannot get much satisfaction from them. Perhaps the story will interest you. I did not attend a single one of the Audubon Society's lectures this season, as my own engagements were so pressing. I felt the disappoint- ment less, however, knowing that there were none of your pictures to be shown. I was much interested in looking over the schedule of lectures at the University Museum. I know a chap here in Boston who I think could give a series under your auspices which I confidently believe you would find worth while and which would fit in very nicely with your general scheme. I don't know how much of a fund you have at your disposal, but if he could get a series of dates in the early part of May I am sure he would be willing to come for little more than his actual traveling expenses. He is just now very busy, with subjects printed above on this letter-head, but after April 15 he will be more at leisure. We have had a real Minnesota winter this year, though with no very low temperatures. But I have lost the whole winter, greatly to my sorrow. Have been kept on the jump all the while, with lecture engagements, story- writing, and special photographic work, not to mention two attacks of the "flu," - quite mild, fortunately, - so that I have had no firat-hand touch with the winter at all. Spring is now in the air, and if I were out in the country I should bei listening for bluebirds; but the only birds I hear are starlings and English sparrows - neither worth listening to. The coming of spring always revives my homesickness for Minnesota. I long to get back among the birds and wild flowers, and I can think of no more delightful program for the month of May than to spend the entire month among my old haunts in Minnesota. Our plans for the summer are not yet set- tled. They want me to go to Bar Harbor again, where we spent three months last summer, and there is also a scheme for going to Yellowstone Park again F HERBERT W. GLEASON University of Minnesota ILLUSTRATED LECTURES ON TRAVEL AND Archives NATURE-STUDY Alaska Luther Burbank and His Magic Gardens Thomas S. Roberts Mt. Monadnock - The Wonderland of Southern Utah Our National Parks - Grand Canyon of the Colorado Natural History Corres pondence The Yellowstone Wonderland - Our Romantic Southwest Afield with Henry David Thoreau - The John Muir Trail Old Spanish Missions of California - The Canadian Alps Deserts and Gardens of Southern California - Bird Life 1259 COMMONWEALTH AVE., BOSTON 34, MASS. with the Teton Mountains as special objective, but that is as yet quite un- certain. I hope you will be more fortunate this year and get away for a long outing. You are always so successful with your bird exploits, and the result: are so interesting to other people, you really ought to devote more time to this "avocation" and leave the medical practice for others to take care of. But I must return to my preparations for a lecture on Mt. Desert which has been booked for the Appalachian Club and also the Boston City Club, both of which organizations always give me large audiences. I wish you could see Mrs. Gleason's colored slides, - they are very fine. Remember us most cordially to Mrs. Roberts, and if at any tim you have an errana this way be sure and let us see you. Faithfully yours, Huckert H. Eleacous Dr. Thos. S. Roberts, Minneapolis. 2/14/2016 XFINITY Connect XFINITY Connect eppster2@comcast.net + Font Size - Herbert W. Gleason on Baker Island, 1923 From : Steve Perrin Sun, Feb 14, 2016 11:30 AM 1 attachment Subject : Herbert W. Gleason on Baker Island, 1923 To : eppster2@comcast.net Dear Ron, Carole forwarded your message to me, and I was pleased to see your mentions of Herbert Gleason and of my niece Leslie. My mother (Dorothy Merchant Perrin) was a geology student at Smith College when she got a summer job working on MDI in 1923. I attach a photo of HWG on the shore of Baker Island (I assume Gleason set up the camera and then posed for this image). The handwriting is my mother's I believe. I went out to Baker island and identified the exact spot where the photo was taken. Many of the same rocks are still there. I actually met George Dorr in 1937 when my family was camping at Bear Brook (then) campground. My mother knew him from her earlier geological work in the park. I was then 4 years old. I look forward to seeing you in April. And yes, I attended two meetings at the park when you were working on your biography of George Dorr. Sincerely, --Steve Perrin Steve Perrin, 80 Mount Desert Street, Apt. 34, Maine 04609 onmymynd@gmail.com, 207/288-8240 Baker-Island-1923_Mr.-Gleason-and-Mrs.jpg 517 KB hhttps://web.mail.comcast.net/zimbra/h/printmessage?id=353928&tz=America/New_York&xim= 1/1 2/14/2016 (1994x1399) Bakusda laws - m gleen on or have Johnson 1723 1/1 American Photographers and the National Parks. Robert Cahn and Robert Glenn Ketchum. New York: Viking Press & Washington: The National Park Foundation, 1981. Of the 210 images selected, none are of Acadia N.P. Neither the Forward nor the two essays by the authors make even passing reference to Herbert Wendell Gleason. The book was "the natural outgrowth of a photographic exhibition sponsored by the National Park Foundation that chronicled the interrelationship of landscape photography and the national park ethic in the United States. It has taken four years to research and assemble the exhibition and prepare for publication." From William Bell (1830-1910) through Ansel Adams (1902- ) and more than two dozen other photographers are featured-but not Gleason. This is not an accessibility issue!