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The National Parks And Forest Reservations, John Muir Jun 1897

The National Parks And Forest Reservations, John Muir

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

THE NATIONAL PARKS AND FOREST RESERVATIONS. I1Y JOHN MUIR. One fine calm day Inst summer, when Professor Sargent. General Abbot, and myself were going through tbet California redwoods, admiring their -wondrous bonuly and grandeur and silence, we came Suddenly upon a scene of disorder. At the foot of n shallow dell, where a little stream crosses the wny, we discovered three Indians, white man, and a bona,all in wild motion—especially the horse. He was a good-looking animal, well bred apparently, but laboring under furious excitement—snnriing, groaning, springing tip on liis hind legs and beating the tiir. then dropping on life …

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Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1897 May 22., John Muir May 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Walter H.] Page, 1897 May 22., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[C to H R G]

Martinez, California, May 22, 1897.

My dear Mr Page.

I did not in the least slight the article on the forests I sent you a few days ago. But just after I had finished it I had to leave home & therefore sent it off in haste. My wife in reading it over said she thought there was a line or two that might seem a repetition about glaciers. I can hardly think this is so, but you may strike it out if it seems so to you. It is in the 5th or 6th …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 May 4., John Muir May 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 May 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

pictures of my own taking and Hills which I sent him to use in publication

Martinez, May 4, 1987

My dear Mr Lukens,

I have written an article on forests for Harpers Weekly, & have sent them some of your photos & some of Mr Hills of Pasadena for illustrations & they want yours & Mr Hills written permission to use these photos. Please write your consent, & get Mr Hill to do so likewise, and send them to

Thos. W. Ball

Harper & Brothers

Franklin Square

New York

Art Department

& oblige

Yours ever

John Muir

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

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

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Thomas W. Ball To John Muir, 1897 Apr 28., Thomas W. Ball Apr 1897

Letter From Thomas W. Ball To John Muir, 1897 Apr 28., Thomas W. Ball

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

HARPER & BROTHERS
FRANKLIN SQUARE,NEW YORK
ART DEPARTMENT

April 28, 1897.

Dear Sir:-->The illustration of your article on The national Parksand Forest Reservations, is referred to me.
Before using any of the illustrative material, which you kindly sent us, it will be necessary to get the photographers' consents to use their pictures. Will you kindly procure this for us, or else send us their addresses which are not given on the photographs, so that we say communicate directly with them?
In addition to the photographs you inclose to us three clippings from some publication. We would prefer the original …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Apr 18., John Muir Apr 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Apr 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: used by La[illegible]]

commending my forestry article he is in favor of hunting being permitted in the Reserves & parks at certain seasons for food

Martinez, Apr. 18, 1897.

Advocates however game refuge where game can be safe

My dear Lukens,

I'm glad the bank is off your back so now you can go free in the woods.
Your forest article is a good one, so good you must write some more, & get others stirred up to do likewise, also write & get others to write to the Senators & Sec of the Interior & make their …

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The New Forest Reservation, John Muir Apr 1897

The New Forest Reservation, John Muir

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

Written for the Mining and Scientific Press by John Muir Uncle Sam Is trying tosave his forests - what Is left of them upd' at the naimi time trying to 11 nd out how best they can bo put to use and kept in use forever for the benefit of miners, fanners, lumber* men and the people in general. • But the problem, though simple looking enough in theory, Is u very difficult one on account of widely varying conditions and interests, and the general apathy and blindness of those whose interests are not immediately involved. In the meantime the …

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Work-A-Day World, April 1897, University Of The Pacific Apr 1897

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

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 10., Charles Sprague Sargent Mar 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 10., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 10, 1897.My dear Muir:

Stiles, the editor of Garden arid Forest, a whose political judgment I have much confidence, says. – “Of course you want to make a public opinion as fast as possible and if you can jet into California papers an idea of your purposes, showing that they are not revolutionary and not hostile to the interests of the western people, and disseminate this through the west as quickly as possible, you will do a good thing.”
You understand what our views are -- that they are not revolutionary -- …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Mar 8., Robert Underwood Johnson Mar 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Mar 8., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

March 8th, 1897

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,

ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,

ASSISTANT EDITOR.

My dear Muir:-

I went down to Washington for inauguration week - not especially to see the inauguration, but to give Mrs. Johnson and myself a rest. As it was, I succeeded in getting into the midst of the fight for forest preservation. The cow-boy Senators tacked a rider on to the Sundry Civil Bill, throwing all of them open to settlement again, except those in California, the Senators from your State having objected to giving up the California reserves, knowing that the …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 5., Charles Sprague Sargent Mar 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 5., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 5, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I am gratified by the receipt of your note of February 24th. I do not understand why you have not heard before that the proclamations were an issued on the 22nd. I should have supposed the news would have been telegraphed to Sari Francisco.
Mr. Page, the editor of The Atlantic Monthly, has sent me a copy of his letter to you. It seems to me excellent and that you cannot very well get out of the job.
We have had quite a lively time the last …

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Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Mar 4., Walter H. Page Mar 1897

Letter From Walter H. Page To John Muir, 1897 Mar 4., Walter H. Page

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

4 March 1897

Dear Sir:

I write to seek if you will not prepare for the Atlantic Monthly an article or articles about the Government parks and reservations in the West. Our own longstanding wish of having the pleasure of publishing something from you on such a subject has been quickened into this definite invitation by the kind suggestion of Professor C. S. Sargent, who has written to you, seconding my request.
I shall not presume to indicate any definite method of treatment, for your own method will be better than any other. But it seems worthwhile just now …

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Workaday World, March 1897, University Of The Pacific Mar 1897

Workaday World, March 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 16., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 16., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamica Plain, Mass., February 16, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I enclose a copy of my letter about the proposed new forest Reserves that, in case they are made, you may be able to talk intelligently about them to the newspapers. I hope the proclamations will be issued next Monday, the 22nd, but there is many a slip between the cup and the lip, so nothing must be said on the subject to any one until you see the announcement of the proclamations in the paper. Only three or four people know anything about this at ail …

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Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 11., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C.S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 11., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., February 11, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I enclose drafts of a Dill which I am going to try and have passed at the extra session of Congress and which I shall accompany with a letter to the Secretary of the Interior describing the actual condition of the Reserves and the dangers which threaten them. I wish you could arrange to have this matter put before the new Secretary of the Interior before he leaves California and get him committed to the bill, as without his endorsement and support nothing, of course, will come …

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Letter From Warren Olney To Joseph Mc Kenna, 1897 Feb 9., Warren Olney Feb 1897

Letter From Warren Olney To Joseph Mc Kenna, 1897 Feb 9., Warren Olney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(COPY-Original sent to Warren Olney)

101 Sansome St.,

San Francisco, Cal.,

Feb. 9, 1897.

Judge Joseph McKenna,

Dear Sir:

It was evident last evening that our friend Mr. John Muir was full of the subject nearest his heart, for you were there, and it reminded him that much of the good work done of late years, in the matter of preserving portions of our wonderful mountain countries for public parks, has been done by the last three successive Secretaries of the Interior - General Noble, Hoke Smith and Mr. Francis. Mr. Muir has largely been instrumental in suggesting the lines …

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Letter From Arnold Hague To Elliott Mcallister, 1897 Feb 6., Arnold Hague, Elliott Mcallister Feb 1897

Letter From Arnold Hague To Elliott Mcallister, 1897 Feb 6., Arnold Hague, Elliott Mcallister

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DEPARTMENT OF THEINTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

February 6, 1897.
WASHINGTON, d. c.

Mr. Elliott McAlister,
Secretary, Sierra Club,
Academy of Sciences Building, Room 51 A,
Sari Francisco, California:

Dear Mr. McAlister:-

If we may judge from newspapers, I suppose that the I selection of Judge McKenna, of San Francisco, has been determined upon for our next Secretary of the Interior under McKinley. I write to ask if you know the Judge, and if you are able to give the Forestry Commission any information as to what position he would take in regard to new forest reserves, and what aid …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 4., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, California

Feb. 4, 1897.

My dear Johnson

We have at last got a definite move on "Yosemite" recession but I have not yet learned what the chances of success are.
No thanks to the Sierra Club in this so far but I still hope to get a resolution favoring recession at our next directors meeting to be held on the 6th next.
Hon. C. M. Simpson is to lead the fight in the Senate.

Ever Yours

John Muir

Bancroft Library

[in margin: Return this to R. U. Johnson
Century Mag.
Union Square

California Legislature

Thanks

E[illegible]

Introduced by …

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Letter From John Muir To T[Heodore] P. Lukens, 1897 Jan 30., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To T[Heodore] P. Lukens, 1897 Jan 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

recession of Yosemite

Martinez, Jan. 30, 1897

Mr. L. P Lukens,

Dear Mr Lukens,

I have just received your telegram on the recession of Yosemite, & also todays paper which shows that the bill [illegible] to the Assembly has been referred to the Committee on public lands & forestry.
I send telegram asking for full address of Mellick & Simpson & the chairman of pub Lands Committee. To all of whom I will write.
A week ago we had a directors meeting of the Sierra Club at wh Olny offered a resolution in favor of recession. Most of the directors …

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Letter From John Muir To Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1897 Jan 18., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To Houghton Mifflin & Co., 1897 Jan 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: John Muir 1/18]

Martinez, California

Jan. 18, 1897

Houghton Mifflin & Co.

Dear Sirs

Have you sent me the tenth Vol. of the Silva of N. America? I have not received it, though I saw notice of its publication last Nov.

Yours truly

John Muir

1/14 a[illegible]

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jan 7., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jan 7., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan 7, 1897

My dear Johnson

Thanks for New Year's best wishes & for news of Sargents sad blows of fortune But Sargent will not down, He will soon be on his firm Mastodonic legs again strong & available as ever. I am trying to get the Sierra club to take plain open ground on the Yosemite question as to the advisability of recognizing it as a natural part of the Yosemite National Park, which it really is & sooner or later must become in fact.
I am also trying to write the confounded syndicate forest letters you & …

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Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jan 4., Theodore P. Lukens Jan 1897

Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Jan 4., Theodore P. Lukens

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

T. P. Lukens, President. William Stanton, Vice Prest. E. E. Jones Cashier.

Pasadena NAtional Bank
CAPITAL PAID UP IN GOLD COIN $100.000??

Pasadena, Cal. Jan. 4th. 1897

John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My Dear Mr. Muir:-

Your letter is at hand. You ask if you can depend upon me being- present at the annual meeting of the Sierra Club, and talk in favor of the recession of the Yosemite grant to the federal Government. I doubt if I can be present at the annual meeting, and if I should be. you know I cannot speak in public . But I believe …

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Letter From John Muir To [David Douglass], 1897 Jan 4., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To [David Douglass], 1897 Jan 4., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[Copied from a Journal of Mr. David Douglas, Edinburgh]

[Original in possession of Miss S. B. Douglas, Edinburgh]

Martinez, California,

January 4, 1897.

My dear Sir:
br>I have received from you Lord Roseberry's two addresses on our immortal poet, for which and the good wishes inscribed I sincerely thank you. How surely the fame of our Burns is growing over all the world and always with deeper admiration and love. The St. Andrew's Society of San Francisco are about to erect a monument for him in the largest of the public parks.
I have wandered far and wide this …

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1897 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Robert Mearns Yerkes, Cyrus E. L. Gresh Jan 1897

1897 Ruby Yearbook, Ursinus College Junior Class, Robert Mearns Yerkes, Cyrus E. L. Gresh

The Ruby Yearbooks, 1897-2020

A digitized copy of the 1897 Ruby, the Ursinus College yearbook.

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Workaday World, January-February 1897, University Of The Pacific Jan 1897

Workaday World, January-February 1897, University Of The Pacific

All Issues - Student Newspaper, The Pacifican, Pacific Weekly

No abstract provided.

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Letter From Warren Olney To Stephen M. White, 1896 Dec 17., Warren Olney Dec 1896

Letter From Warren Olney To Stephen M. White, 1896 Dec 17., Warren Olney

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

(COPY -letter from files returned to Mr. Warren Olney)

San Francisco, December 17, 1896.

Senator Stephen M. White,

Washington, D.C.

My dear Sir:

I desire to acknowledge the letter you sent me in regard to the reservation of that portion of the Sierras bordering Lake Tahoe on the west. Before Senator Perkins went to Washington 1 was in constant communication with him in regard to the matter. President Jordan of Stanford University was in Washington on official business lately and made the matter of this reservation a subject of special consideration. He had interviews with the Secretary of the Interior …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Charles Sprague Sargent Dec 1896

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1896 Dec 1., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM.

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.
December 1, 1896.

My dear Mail":

I have been re-reading Douglas's Journal as we agreed I should do. It does not seem to me, on the whole, to be interesting enough to wairant [ellegible] publication. If you find that there is no copy in the library of the Academy, I can send out to you for perusal the volume containing it if you would like to have me do so. He certainly claims that he measured Pinus Lambertiana 57 feel in circumference. He also claims, however, that he found Pinus poderosa 55 feet …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 19., Robert Underwood Johnson Nov 1896

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1896 Nov 19., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

November 19th, 1896.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

I inclose herewith a letter from Mr. McClure of the MoClure Syndicate and Magazine. Prof. Sargent (with whom I have been talking over the matter to-day) and I both think that you could do a great deal of good by writing these articles, and we trust the terms will be satisfactory to you.
In any event, please communicate direct with Mr. McClure as his offer is, of course, only a tentative one, and is dependent …

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Letter From Edwin H. Abott To John Muir, 1896 Oct 24., Edwin H. Abott Oct 1896

Letter From Edwin H. Abott To John Muir, 1896 Oct 24., Edwin H. Abott

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMPANIES.

PRESIDENT OFFICE.

WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMPANY
WISCONSIN CENTRAL R. R. CO.
MILWAUREE & WINNEBAGO R. R. CO.
CHICAGO, WISCONSIN MINNESOTA R. R. CO.
EDWIN H. ABBOT,
PRESIDENT.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., Oct. 24, 1896.

Prof. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Thank you very much for your letter of October 14th. My brother Henry has just left me on his return east, and will be very much gratified, I know, to find that you enjoyed his company as much as he did yours. I have rarely heard him speak with such warmth, of the gaining of a new friend …

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Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Oct 8., Robert Herrick Oct 1896

Letter From Robert Herrick To John Muir, 1896 Oct 8., Robert Herrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

02162

[letterhead]

Oct 8 96

John Muir, Esq.

President of the Sierra Club

of San Francisco

My dear Sir:

My. Edwin Abbot has requested me to write a notice of the life of his son, my old classmate and chum, in response to a request from your society for a short memoir to accompany the account of his last fatal expedition. It will give me great pleasure to put in permanent record my knowledge

2

[letterhead]

of his rare and brilliant life.
Will you be good enough to let me know how much space you wish to devote to this …

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