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Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1898 Jan 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan. 3. 1898

My dear Sargent.

I thank you for your kind wishes for the New Year & send you my best in return, congratulating you on the recovery of your daughter the healing of your broken ankle & on our good reviving Alaska trip. Of course I'm sorry to hear the doom of good park-loving - flower-loving forest-loving Forest & Garden, but we must just turn our love unto other channels. I am now pegging away on a description of the Yellowstone Park poking in as I can praise of the military management as compared with political. Next …

1898 Ruby Yearbook, George Leslie Omwake, Peter Martin Orr, Ursinus College Junior Class

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1898 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

Wild Parks And Forest Reservations Of The West., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE WILD PARKS AND FOREST RESERVATIONS OF THE WEST. " Keep not standing fix'd and rooted, Briskly venture, briskly roam ; Head and hand, where'er thou foot it, And stout heart are still at home. In each land the sun does visit We are gay, whate'er betide: To give room for wandering is it That the world was made so wide." The tendency nowadays to Wander in wildernesses is delightful to see. Thou sands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity; and that mountain …

Mr. C. D. Willard: Martinez, August 8, 1898., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

A SERIOUS MENACE. The Express in its issue of August 2nd spoke of the need for quick and vigorous- action to save the mountain growths of this region from utter destruction. Sheep men and campers, but particularly sheep men, threaten the prosperity of these Southern California valleys more and more seriously every year, by setting Are to the forest trees, underbrush and beds of leaves which are our only protection against floods and droughts. Rains absorbed by mountain slopes are so much clear gain to the farmers. Those which rush down in torrents, disappearing in the sands of the various …

An Outline Of The History Of The Christian Reformed Church Of American, Henry Van Der Werp

CRCNA Histories

No abstract provided.

Public Highways, John Peter Case

Student and Lippitt Prize Essays

The history of public highway development throughout many of the world’s civilizations and a discussion concerning their overall importance, features and use.

The Social Effects Of The Norman Conquest Upon England, Anson Harvey Washburn

Manuscript Thesis Collection

No abstract provided.

5-1 Letter To Mr. Page March 20, 1898, Charles W. Chesnutt

Charles Chesnutt - Correspondence

Letter from Charles W. Chesnutt to a Mr. Page enclosing the first six "conjure woman" stories that would eventually go on to become the foundation of his first published book 'The Conjure Woman.

Kept at Charles W. Chesnutt Library Archives & Special Collections Department at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, NC

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 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 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

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 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 Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Nov 22., Cornelius B. Bradley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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[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 …

Work-A-Day World, November 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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 [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 …

1897 Oct 15 Walter Page To Jm P1, Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Page 1]

Dear Mr. Muir,

I thank you very heartily for your telegram that has just been received, and I wait with eagerness for your letter. At the risk of making myself a nuisance I was on the point of writing to you an additional experience that I have had which I cannot help thinking will interest you.

Mr. John Burroughs has been spending a little while with me, and he talks about nothing else so earnestly as about you and your work. He declares in the most emphatic fashion that it will be a misfortune too great to estimate …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Oct 7., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Literature and that lays the greatest stress on preserving and fortifying it and in doing a permanent and continuous service for it. The attention to permanent editions, from one generation of publishers to another, by a house that by reason of the body of permanent literature that it has to do with has become itself a great institution--this is a matter of great importance. But I am preaching the sermon that Professor Sargent said today that he would himself preach to you: it's a sermon so true that it'll bear repeating.
The point is that you concentrate your work …

Letter From W[Arren] Olney To N. Gilmore, 1897 Oct 6., Warren Olney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[illegible]
October 6, 1897

Mr. N. Gilmore,
Gilmore Springs, Tallac, Cal.

Dear Sir:-

Mr. B. F. Allen, special agent of the Land Department, will be at your place in a few days for the purpose of making a special investigation as to the propriety of setting apart the public lands in your neighborhood as a forest reservation. I hope he will be able to get there before you shut up for the winter, because I shall direct him to go immediately to your place. You can furnish him horses and give him information in regard to the country. He goes …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Sep 1., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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the Century Company would probably wish to publish them, and you implied that, while you had no arrangement with them, it would be more or less natural for them to expect the book, inasmuch as they re-published in book form the papers that make up "The Mountains of California". The policy (I prefer, indeed, to call it a principle) of Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin and Company has always been not to poach on other publishers' preserves, and to regard an obligation of an author to his publisher as an intimate and inviolable relation. I can, therefore, say nothing, and should …

An Adventure With A Dog And A Glacier., John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

AN ADVENTURE WITH A DOG AND A GLACIER. BY THE AUTHOR OP THE MOUNTAINS OF CALIFORNIA,)) ETC. N the summer of 1880 I set out from Fort Wran- gel in a canoe, with the Rev. S. H. Young, my former companion, and a crew of Indians, to continue the exploration of the icy region of southeastern Alaska, begun in the fall of 1879. After the necessary provisions, blankets, etc., had been collected and stowed away, and the Indians were in their places ready to dip their paddles, while a crowd of their friends were looking down from the wharf to …

Work-A-Day World, September 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

Letter From Cornelius B. Bradley To John Muir, 1897 Aug 28., Cornelius B. Bradley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 28, 1897.

My dear Mr. Muir,

I have undertaken a rash thing: no less than the furnishing to our University Magazine a bibliography of your publications to make part of a "Muir number" to come out in November or December. I have, of course, access to what has been printed on the subject in the Overland; but I do not know without some guidance from you whether those compilers really covered all the ground up to that date, nor how I shall make sure that I get all you have published since then. Have you a …

Letter From Louie [Strentzel Muir] To [John Muir], 1897 Aug 17., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,
August 17, 1897.

My dear husband:

We have just received your telegram from Victoria and have also read in the Examiner that you are to sail on the Queen next Sunday, so we are all writing hurried letters to you hoping they will go on the steamer Walla Walla in the morning. I inclose Mr. Johnson's letter, so you may see how much work you have before you. The ladies of the Century Club, San Francisco, are again very anxious to have you lecture for them September 8. I answered that you would probably be up North at …

Letter From [Louie] Muir To R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson, 1897 Aug 14., Louie Strentzel Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Form No. 168.
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The American Forests, John Muir

John Muir: A Reading Bibliography by Kimes (Muir articles 1866-1986)

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY: jftaga?me of Literature., Science, &rt anD $oltttcft Vol. LXXX. — A UGUST, 1897. — No. CCCCLXXVIII. THE AMERICAN FORESTS. The forests of America, however slighted by man, must have been a great delight to God; for they were the best he ever planted. The whole continent was a garden, and from the beginning it seemed to be favored above all the other wild parks and gardens of the globe. To prepare the ground, it was rolled and sifted in seas with infinite loving deliberation and forethought, lifted into the light, submerged and warmed over and over again, …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jul 8., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

is done may we not bring the books out for you?
I congratulate you on your new academic honors, which, however, are valuable less for the distinction that they confer on you, who do not need it, than as an indication that the great public, even including colleges, is waking up to an appreciation of your work. On such a fact as this the great American public, including even the colleges, is to be congratulated.
I herewith return at your request professor Sargent's letter and the newspaper clippings.
I pray you let me hear from you with regard to possible …

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Jun 25., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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have you made any definite arrangment about the publication of the book? If you have not, why might I not use such portions as you would care to have appear in magazine form, and then perhaps you will let me present the book publishing scheme to Messrs Houghton, Mifflin & Co?
I am looking forward with some eagerness to the coming of your next paper--on Parks.--Maybe these new papers will continue til they, too, make a volume.

Very Sincerely Yours,

Walter H. Page

John Muir Esq.

[letterhead]

25, June, 1897.

Dear Mr Muir:

We are getting your paper on …

Letter From C[Harles] S[Prague] Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Jun 22., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica plain, Mass., June 22,1897.

My dear Muir:

I have a note from you acknowledging the receipt of the reports and asking what the actual condition of the reservations is.
At this time of course you know that Congress has thrown open all the new ones outside of California until the 1st of March, so that the mining corporations can lay in a good supply of stolen timber and squatters can acquire rights to what the mines do not want. What is still worse the Secretary of the Interior can under the law allow any one …