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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Dec 30., Walter H. Page
Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Dec 30., Walter H. Page
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
EDITORIAL OFFICE OF
The Atlantic Monthly,
BOSTON.
December 30, 1897.
My dear Mr. Muir,
The January Atlantic has not long been before the public, but we are hearing all sorts of pleasant things about your paper that constitutes the best part of it. The newspaper comment on articles of this sort is too likely to be perfunctory, and the more significant things that we hear come by word of mouth and in private letters. I send you this as my New Year greeting, and to express the hope that the next paper will be along at as early a time …
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 28, 1897, Francis George
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 28, 1897, Francis George
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Valona Dec 28th 97 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir, I wish you & yours A Happy New Year. Please find enclosed ck. No Fifteen for Four Hundred & thirteen ($413.00) Dollars to be credited as follows. On lot 1 B.34 to Chris Texdahl 125.00 balance $125.00 in 8 months On lot 2 B.11 to J. Schnecker 25- “ “ 5 “ 20 “ V. Ciofani 15- Balance on lot 8 B.22 to Rigotti Antonia 81.50 Deed made in favor of Rigotti Antonia for lot 8 B.22 & recorded On lot 7 B.11 to Manuel E. Boim 151.50 For rent to …
Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Dec 24., Charles Sprague Sargent
Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Dec 24., Charles Sprague Sargent
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass, December 24, 1897.
My dear Muir:
How are you getting on? You seem as quiet, so far as I am concerned, as one of those Patton Spruces buried under twenty feet of Sierra snow.
The year ends badly for me because it will see the demise of Garden and Forest. For ten years I have worked like a dog to get this paper established because a paper of the kind seems needed in this country, but it is no go. I cannot find people enough who are interested in its subjects to make …
Letter From Geo[Rge] H. Warner To John Muir, 1897 Dec 24., George H. Warner
Letter From Geo[Rge] H. Warner To John Muir, 1897 Dec 24., George H. Warner
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER,
Editor-in-Chief.
HAMILTON WRIGHT MABIE,
LUCIA GILBERT RUNKLE,
GEORGE H. WARNER,
Associate Editors.
LIBRARY OF THE WORLD'S BEST LITERATURE,
EDITORIAL ROOMS, 91 & 93 FIFTH AVENUE.
J. A. HILL & CO., Publishers,
CABLE: "TITIMALO, NEW YORK.
NEW YORK, 24th December 1897
John Muir Esq.
Martinez, California
My dear Mr Muir
1 send you a check for $82.50, designed to be in payment for the article you were so good as to give us on Linnaeus. This is at the rate per thousand words which we have paid the eastern writers, and I hope it will be satisfactory to …
Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1897 Dec 15., Gifford Pinchot
Letter From Gifford Pinchot To John Muir, 1897 Dec 15., Gifford Pinchot
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
N.L.W.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
WASHINGTON,
D.C. Dec. 15, 1897.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.
Dear Mr. Muir:
The work in the field is at an end for the present season, and I am now busy preparing my report. Two alternatives present themselves for the treatment of the reserved public timber lands. One is to reserve all suoh lands at one blow by refusing to allow any forest lands of the United States to be disposed of hereafter. This course would probably require Congressional action, and it is by no means certain that such action could be obtained. The other …
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Dec 14., Robert Underwood Johnson
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Dec 14., Robert Underwood Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
December 14th, 1897
R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOX.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOX.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My dear Muir,
Your cheerful shout of the 6th of December gave me much pleasure, and so did the first paragraph of your postscript, in which you say that you may possibly take a trip through the interior of Alaska next summer, and if you do will be glad to write a sketch for The Century.
By the interior of Alaska we presume you mean the Klondike, and if so it is a bargain; but we want to …
Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, 1897 Dec 14., M. H. Myrick
Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, 1897 Dec 14., M. H. Myrick
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
Dec. 14, 1897
My dear Mr Muir-
The other day some friends of ours who are readers and have traveled inquired, "Do you know the man who wrote about the Stickeen dog?" We said yes, we are glad to know him--he has told that story at our house. Well," said our friends, "the next time he comes to you, you must let us meet him for we want to see and know a man who can write such a charming story." That, coming from such people, is praise, for they are bright people. We tell this to you, because …
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 12, 1897, Francis George
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 12, 1897, Francis George
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Valona Dec 12th 1897 Mr John Muir. Dear Sir, Enclose please find Ck no Eleven for $201.50 to be credited on lot 3 B12. Please have deed made out in favor of Charles Jacobsen for lot 3 B12 in the town of Valona. I will have to find water elsewhere on the ranch, as the well I have got will not be give enough in the summer months as last summer I had to pump in the morning & empty it & the evening & empty it, so I am afraid that I will run short next summer as my …
Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Cornelius B. Bradley
Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Cornelius B. Bradley
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[letterhead]
2639 Durant Ave.
Berkeley, Cal. Dec. 10, 1897.
My dear Mr. Muir,
Those letters of yours--fugitive as you consider them--are well worthy of revision and collection in permanent form. I sincerely hope you will undertake the work soon, and that you will extend it to the collection of your magazine articles also. These last, of course, are in more or less permanent form already, and are to some degree accessible. But the freshness and charm of the others will be lost forever if you do not take them in hand. Professor Anderson of Stanford and I were talking over …
Letter From Lydia Ely [Et Al.] To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Lydia Ely, Edward Scofield, William C. Rauschenberger
Letter From Lydia Ely [Et Al.] To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Lydia Ely, Edward Scofield, William C. Rauschenberger
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Milwaukee, Dec. & [10?], 1897.
Mr, John Muir,
Bear Sir:-
Upon the inclosed water-marked and engraved slip you are requested to write your autograph and profession, and return the same in the accompanying envelope. This autograph will be one among about one thousand names of persons eminent in the National, State and Municipal government of this country, and of men and women of foremost rank in the professions, in affairs, and in the fine arts; these, bound together in one grand volume, will be sold for the benefit of the Soldiers' Monument of Milwaukee.
A bronze group, already accepted, is …
Letter From Edward R. Taylor To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Edward R. Taylor
Letter From Edward R. Taylor To John Muir, 1897 Dec 10., Edward R. Taylor
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[in margin: Miscellaneous]
[letterhead]
December 10. 1897.
My dear Muir
Tom Magee was in my office yesterday, and in speaking of his deliverance from his recent perils & hardships, said he felt that it was due to nature's protection of him by reason of his love for her; that you had told him that the wild apple had more seeds than the cultivated one, etc. I then set to thinking about your own experience
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on the glacier with the little dog, and other great perils of yours from all of which you were so fortunately delivered. The result of …
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 7, 1897, Francis George
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, December 7, 1897, Francis George
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Valona Dec 7th 97 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir, Enclosed please find check no nine for Four hundred and thirtysix 50/100. 436.50 dollars to be credited as follows. To V. Ciofani on lot 5 B20 15.00 “ Geo Peters “ “ 1 Block 16 10-“ J.E. Petersen “ 1-2 B22 10-“ J. Schmecker “ lot 2 B11 50- balance 200.00 to be paid in 8 months“ F. Sausch on lot 3 B16 100- balance $150.00 to be paid in 6 months“ Oliver Meeth for lot 2 B16 251.50 Please have deed made out & recorded to Oliver Meeth for lot …
Letter From John Muir To Mary [Muir Hand], 1897 Dec 6., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To Mary [Muir Hand], 1897 Dec 6., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Dec. 6. 1897
My dear Mary;
Never mind my judgement on your foolish danger risk at Port Costa. that's past. Be wiser in future. We were all glad to hear you found your family well & that you would be able to give time to art. Don't copy. Go direct to nature. With best wishes for the new Year
I am ever Your affectionate brother
John __
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Dec 6., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Dec 6., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[Rough draft of letter]
[Dec. 1897]
[Robert Underwood Johnson]
[To Mr. Johnson, of the Century Magazine]
Yours of Dec. 1 just received. I may possibly take a trip through the interior of Alaska next summer. I have been at the head of the Yukon and its mouth at St. Michaels and around the Arctic region of the territory, but have not yet visited the interior of the basin.
As to the book rights of the Atlantic articles, your friendly suggestion comes too late, for Houghton Mifflin have already secured them. They write again and again offering to print anything I …
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Dec 1., Robert Underwood Johnson
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Dec 1., Robert Underwood Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
December 1st, 1897.
R. W. GILDER, EDITOR,
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My dear Muir,
Is there any chance whatever of your going to the Klondike for any purpose? [illegible] Have you ever been in that region, and if so is there anything of interest that you could write at once -- say, a page or two?
May I suggest that in disposing of your Atlantic articles you reserve the book rights. If you say nothing about it they will consider that they have bought the book rights and you …
Letter From H. P. Child To John Muir, 1897 Nov 27., H. P. Child
Letter From H. P. Child To John Muir, 1897 Nov 27., H. P. Child
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
FORM IOS S & M L CO 7-6-97-1000
KANSAS CITY STOCK YARDS COMPANY.
ASSISTANT GENERAL MANAGER'S OFFICE.
H. P. CHILD,
ASS'T. GEN'L. MANAGER.
Kansas City, Mo., November 27, 1897.
Mr. John Muir,
c/o Atlantic Monthly,
New York City, N.Y.
Dear Sir;
I am rebinding in fine calf my copy of "The Mountains of California" and before placing the inclosed book-plate in the volume, I am tempted to ask you to honor it by adding to it your autograph with a line and date below my name.
Hoping that you will confer this favor and thanking you in advance for the …
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, November 22, 1897, Francis George
Letter From Francis George To John Muir, November 22, 1897, Francis George
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Valona, Nov 22nd 97 Mr. John Muir. Dear Sir Please find enclosed ck no three for three hundred and sixty two 70/100. $362.70 to be credited as follows. To A. Hedberg [?} for recording deed 1.00 “ J.J. Schreoder on lot 4 B20 25- “ V. Ciofani “ “ 5 “20 14-“ Geo Peters “ “ 1 “16 10-“ A. Boznic “ “ 3 “21 50-“ Louis Pifer “ “ 4 “21 100-balance $92.50 to be paid in 6 months To Carmina Cimina on lot 8 B32 120-balance 80.00 to be paid in 8 months To J.E. Petersen on lots …
Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Nov 26., Charles Sprague Sargent
Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Nov 26., Charles Sprague Sargent
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., November 26,1897.
My dear Muir:
Mr. Hunnewell, the old man who loves trees and whose letter I sent you the other day, has a grandson who is going to California and his grandfather has asked me to give him a note of introduction to you. I have done this with some compunction as I could not very well refuse. The idea, I fancy, was the grandfather's and not the grandson's who cares more for dogs, golf and tennis than he does for trees, and probably the letter will never be presented. If it …
Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Nov 22., Cornelius B. Bradley
Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Nov 22., Cornelius B. Bradley
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[1]
[letterhead]
Berkeley, Cal., Nov. 22, 1897.
My dear Mr. Muir,
I have had to send that bibliography to the printer as it was, without the information I hoped to get from you. But there will be a chance to amend it in the proof. I am writing just now, however, to ask if you can furnish me volume and page of that article on Linnaeus in the World's Best Literature or otherwise locate it. If you can, please don't fail to let me know. I cannot get hold of the publication anywhere; short of sending east and there isn't …
Letter From Henry F. Osborn To John Muir, 1897 Nov 18., Henry F. Osborn
Letter From Henry F. Osborn To John Muir, 1897 Nov 18., Henry F. Osborn
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4]
[maga-]zine. I shall look forward to the others. No, my book is not as Big as the 'Silva'-but it is big enough! I never have it off my mind for a moment day or night.
My wife leans over my shoulder to say 'Give him my love'. Your invitation to the Yosemite will not be forgotten. therefore - always
Faithfully your firend
Henry F. Osborn
[1]
November 18th 1897
[letterhead]
My dear Prof. Muir,
We were very happy to hear from you again, in such a long delightful letter. and learn of your Alaskan journey. The Osborns and chickarees …
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Nov 16., Robert Underwood Johnson
Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Nov 16., Robert Underwood Johnson
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
November 16th, 1897.
R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.
My dear Muir,
Mrs. Johnson and I arrived last week from Paris, and I was glad to find on my desk a friendly word from you.
I am exceedingly sorry to hear of the death of Mrs. Muir's mother, and I beg that you will accept for yourself and her my sincerest condolences.
I am glad to see that your pen is at work on forestry questions. I wouldn't trust Cornelius N. Bliss on that subject, or any …
Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Nov 16., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Nov 16., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Oct. 16. 1897
My dear Sargent.
I know very well what you have suffered on account of the deadly danger your daughter was in, for I have two daughters & years ago they were near to death. I see that poor good able & amiable Stiles is dead. This death, disease & pain business of our nature is horrible amid the joy & harmony of our blessed world. and we can only hope & trust that there is a still better world beyond this.
With this I return good Abbot's letters I think his estimate of Pinchot is just, …
Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1897 Nov 13., Alfred H. Sellers
Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1897 Nov 13., Alfred H. Sellers
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[illegble]
Our dear Mr. Muir:
On our return from Puckawa Lake a few days ago we were delighted to find your letter of the 28th ult. awaiting us. It was only a few days before that Fay said "I wonder where Mr. Muir is. I wish we could hear from him." She thought it quite wonderful to find, on her return, her wish gratified. Fay and I were greatly surprised and shocked to learn of the death of dear Mrs. Strentzel. We had, from your talk, learned to hold her in high esteem and when we saw her for only …
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Nov 12., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Nov 12., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
thanking me for about 200 more Photographs of my taking
Martinez Nov. 12, 1897
My dear Lukens.
I thank you for the magnificent set of photographs which arrived the other day. The Canon set brings back the glorious days I spent there last year The one with the white cloud is particularly telling. The Flagstaff one has a fine view of the wonderful San Francisco Mtns & the limestone ledges with the Cavedwellers huts are fine & interesting pictures.
Eaton Canon is a fine picture & recalls my visit 20 yrs ago. Then the rocks were lined with moss & …
Letter From John Muir To [Henry F.] Osborn, 1897 Nov [?]., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Henry F.] Osborn, 1897 Nov [?]., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, California,
November 1897
My dear Prof. Osborn
Where have all the Osborns been this Summer? I thought of you the other day when I read your Great [illegible]turalist in the Century and many times last summer in Alaska. [illegible] I spent a short time in the Rocky Mountain forests between Banff [illegible] Glacier with (Prof.) Sargent and Mr. Ganby then we went to Alaska, mostly by the same route you traveled. We were on the Queen had your state rooms. The weather was not so fine as during your trip. The glorious color we so enjoyed on the upper …
Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Oct 29., Walter H. Page
Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Oct 29., Walter H. Page
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
just as welcome for January.
I am glad to hear what you write, too, that you had made no engagement with any other publisher touching the books (I say books, because this matter about the parks and reservations will make one book, and the matter that you are obliged to write about Alaska will make another book); and that Messrs.
Houghton, Mifflin & Company may bring them out for you when you are ready. The Atlantic will do all it can in the meantime in the way of serial publication---very thankfully. The books you may be sure will be brought …
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
glad Mother & I went to Grand Canyon
Martinez, Oct 28, 1897
My dear Lukens.
We all thank you for your kind letter & are glad to hear that you are all well.
How fine it was that Mrs Lukens was able to go to the Grand Canon. Ive just been writing a little about it at the end of an article that will appear in the Atlantic Monthly. Am now at work on the Yellowstone & then probably will try Alaska. So you see I'm busy & would be delighted to accept your invitation & trouting--but Cant you come …
Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Oct 28, 1897.
My dear Sargent
I am very glad to learn that your daughter is now out of danger. The strain on you all must have been terrible.
That Dana & Stiles are gone is indeed a great loss & makes forest matters look worse than ever but public opinion on the side of right is growing & we need not despair so long as God lives. Some will be saved of our grand woods. I can't believe that matters are going to be mismanaged forever.
I read the copy of Bliss' appointment of Pinchot & the instructions …
Letter From John Muir To [A. H., Fay And Frank ?] Sellers, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
Letter From John Muir To [A. H., Fay And Frank ?] Sellers, 1897 Oct 28., John Muir
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
Martinez, Oct 28, 1897.
My dear Sellers [Three?]
How are you, how you been since last I saw you or heard from you? I spent part of the summer in Alaska & in the Rocky Mountains about Banff, Laggan, & Glacier, making hurried trips. & it was well I did so for our good Mother Strentzel died two weeks after I got home. How great a gap this makes in our little family you will know.
Now I'm trying some writing, have just sent off an article on forests etc. it touches on your favorite Mt Rainier, the Grand Colorado …
Letter From W[Illiam] M. Canby To John Muir, 1897 Oct 24., William M. Canby
Letter From W[Illiam] M. Canby To John Muir, 1897 Oct 24., William M. Canby
John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)
[4]
Whenever I speak of Alaska and recommend people to go there to see its wonders, that is always the principal inducement I mention.
I ask you to believe, my dear Mr. Muir, that I always think of you with the utmost respect and I may truly say admiration; and that in all sincerity I am most truly,
Your obliged,
Wm M. Canby
I sent your Mountains of California to Mr. Anderson
[1]
Wilmington Delaware
Oct. 24th 1897
My dear Mr. Muir,
Prof. August has written me of the death of your mother-in-law, the dear old lady who so kindly …