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Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Apr 6., Charles Sprague Sargent Apr 1897

Letter From C. S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Apr 6., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.
Jamaica Plain, Mass., April 6, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I am glad to get your note of the 29th and enclosures. We have been summoned to Washington again and things look as badly as possible. The President's intention now is to suspend some of the Reserves, especially those where big corporations want to continue to steal timber, and, what is still worse, it is proposed to pass a general forestry bill giving the Secretary of the Interior extraordinary powers to open reservations for all sorts of purposes but providing no machinery for it to protect them. …

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Letter From Geo [Rge] C. Perkins To John Muir, 1897 Apr 6., George C. Perkins Apr 1897

Letter From Geo [Rge] C. Perkins To John Muir, 1897 Apr 6., George C. Perkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

United States Sanate,

WASHINGTON, D. C.,

April 6th, 1897

John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, California.

Dear Sir:-

I am in receipt of yours of March 30th, and have forwarded to the President the letter addressed to him. I am in full sympathy with your movement, as I realize what it means and its great importance.

Yours very truly,

[illigible]

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Letter From Geo [Rge] C. Perkins To Edward R. Taylor, 1897 Apr 6., George C. Perkins Apr 1897

Letter From Geo [Rge] C. Perkins To Edward R. Taylor, 1897 Apr 6., George C. Perkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

United States Senate,

WASHINGTON, D. C, April 6th, 1897.

Edward R. Taylor, Esq.,
530 Calif., St., San Francisco, Calif.

Dear Sir:-

I am in receipt of yours relating to forest reserves, and fully agree with you in the position you have taken. I have heard some rumors that an effort will be made to modify Cleveland's order, but do not know that any action will be taken at least so far as relates to the reservation in California.

Yours very truly,

[illegible]

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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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Letter From W[Illiam] P. Gibbons To John Muir, 1897 Apr [?]., William P. Gibbons Apr 1897

Letter From W[Illiam] P. Gibbons To John Muir, 1897 Apr [?]., William P. Gibbons

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Alameda 4/ 1897_

Dear John.

I waked up three days ago with a clear brain surmounting my cervical pedistle. The old fellow had been skedaddling off in various directions for about three consecutive months without permission & I suppose he found no better quarters than those he was brought up in so he concluded to return home. I'm quite [illegible] to see him & as he gets pretty good treatment, he may remain a little longer into '86. Three months occlusion from the world is a pretty serious matter; & when you come to add it on to the jag …

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Letter From Wm. H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 April 1., William H. Mills Apr 1897

Letter From Wm. H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 April 1., William H. Mills

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

OFFICE
CENTRAL PECIFIC RAILROAD CO.
LAND DEPERTMENT.
ROOM NO. 26, - 4TH FLOOR,
MOBART BUILDING.

san franc.sco,

April lst.'97

My dear Mr Muir:-

If I excuse you from wrriting " Geologic California", will you undertake the scenic part of it,as you indicated in your first letter. If you will,it will take about 2400 words or five or six pages. I hope you will not disappoint us in this matter,as it is very important that this work should be well done,and I know of no one who can do it as well as yourself.

Yoursvery truly,

[illigible]

John Muir Esq,
Martinez, …

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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 T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Mar 22., Theodore P. Lukens Mar 1897

Letter From T[Heodore] P. Lukens To John Muir, 1897 Mar 22., Theodore P. Lukens

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

March 22 1897

Prof John Muir

Martinez Cal

Dear Friend Muir

Your favor at hand yes I have seen the devliish spirit in Congress toward our Reservation. I have been to work all winter. I have sent long telegrams to our represeentatives imploring them to do all they could to prevent our reservations being cut down to any extent. but I tell you there are so many who care nothing for the forests and care nothing for the devastating effect on the country the cutting of the timber would bring about. they only hope to make a few dollars …

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Letter From Wm H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 Mar 22., William H. Mills Mar 1897

Letter From Wm H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 Mar 22., William H. Mills

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

OFFICE
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Co.

LAND DEPARTMENT.

ROOM NO. 26, - 4TH FLOOR.
HOBART BUILDING.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 22nd.'97

John Muir Esq.
Martinez , Cal.

My dear Mr Muir:-

I answer in this your esteemed favor of March 21st. We cannot in the little book we are going to print expect to tell much on any subject. We cannot elaborate. If a dozen sentences on the subject of the geological formation of this State could be formulated by some one acquainted with it, it would answer the purpose. We are not going to try to instruct the people who cone …

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Letter From John Muir To Walter H. Page, 1897 Mar 21., John Muir Mar 1897

Letter From John Muir To Walter H. Page, 1897 Mar 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California,

March 21, 1897.

Dear Sir.

I shall be very glad to prepare an article on the Government parks & reservations in accordance with your flattering request, if I can manage it in time to be of use. I am very busy at present writing for the reserves in the S.F. newspapers, & I make slow progress, the fight in the west is very bitter. Beds of lies are growing up thicker & taller than the redwood forests, & cutting them down seems an endless task.
But I trust we'll win yet.
With thanks for the offer of your …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 19., Charles Sprague Sargent Mar 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 19., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,

HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 19, 1897.

My dear Muir:

Glad to get your note of the 12th. No I do not see California papers and should be glad to know their expression about the reservations. The worst thing that has happened to me in this connection so far is that General Abbot has been appointed on the International Commission of experts to report on the future of the Panama Canal. This takes him to France for a year and compels him to leave this country the 1st of May. I want, therefore, to get our report …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1897 Mar 18., Sarah Muir Galloway Mar 1897

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To [John Muir], 1897 Mar 18., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Portage, Wis.

March 18 /97

My dear Brother John

I was at Joanna's the other day and I find that she is more in need of help than ever before, as far as I can tell. Walter felt very much encouraged about being able to send her money enough to keep her comfortable and make it possible for her to pay something of [what?] she owes in the Store, but she says he finds times so very close that he finds it hard to send her the little he does and it comes so slow that

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Letter From Wm H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 Mar 17., William H. Mills Mar 1897

Letter From Wm H. Mills To John Muir, 1897 Mar 17., William H. Mills

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

OFFICE
CENTRAL PACIFIC RAILROAD Co.

LAND DEPARTMENT.

ROOM NO. 26, - 4TH FLOOR.
HOBART BUILDING.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 17th.'97

John Muir Esq.
Martinez , Cal.

Dear Sir:- About 20,000 people are coming to California with, the Christian Endeavor Association and the State Board of Trade wants to present then with a "[Huide] to California". The object of the guide will be to answer the questions which naturally arise to the mind of a stranger in a strange land concerning the country he is visiting. We want about four pages relating to the geological formation and the scenery of California, under …

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Letter From H[Enry] L[Oomis] Nelson To John Muir, 1897 Mar 16., Henry Loomis Nelson Mar 1897

Letter From H[Enry] L[Oomis] Nelson To John Muir, 1897 Mar 16., Henry Loomis Nelson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

HERPER & BROTHERS' EDITORIAL ROOMS.

FRANKLIN SQUARE, NEW YORK.

March 10, 1897.

Mr. John Muir;
Martinz,
California.

My dear Sir:

Both Prof. Sargent and Prof. Hague heve suggested you to me as the proper person to whom to apply for en article upon the recent journey of the Forestry Commission through the reservations, with some observations upon the purposes of the Commission and the official action that should be taken for the preservation of the forests. I am also told that you have photographs for the illustration of such an article.
If you will undertake to write an article of …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Mar 15., John Muir Mar 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Mar 15., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

aid in defense of our Nat. Parks & Reserves

Martinez, March 15, 1897

My dear Mr Lukens.

No doubt you have noticed the savage attack made in the last Congress on our parks & forest reserves, & though this failed a still more dangerous attack is going to be made in the extra session, & it behooves every friend of forests to cry aloud & spare not in their defense. Write & get as many of your friends as possible to write to our Senators & Assemblymen thanking them for the stand they made in defense of the reserves of …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 12., Charles Sprague Sargent Mar 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Mar 12., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., March 12, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I have yours of March 6th with enclosure from the [Examiner?] I don't know as there is anything new to say, the reservations being exactly in tae position they were before the Senate amendment was passed. I am disappointed, however, that there has not been more talk in the California papers on this subject and that you have not been interviewed concerning the reservations and the work of the Commission. As I have already written you more than once, we must get western support or the thing …

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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 Arnold Hague To John Muir, 1897 Mar 9., Arnold Hague Mar 1897

Letter From Arnold Hague To John Muir, 1897 Mar 9., Arnold Hague

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY

WASHINGTON, D. C. March 9, 1897.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

The editor of Harper's Weekly told me he would write and ask you to prepare an article for the Weekly on the forest reservations. I hope you will see your way clear to do this. I suppose you have the necessary material with you to prepare a popular article on the subject. It is very necessary that the people be educated in this matter as to the importance of forest reservations.
You are doubtless already aware that the …

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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 John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Mar 6., John Muir Mar 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Mar 6., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, March, 6, 1897

After looking carefully over the ground I found not the slightest chance for Yosemite so late in the session after all the careless members had traded their votes. So we must just wait & we will know better how to work the thing next time.
But Ye Gods! What's to be done with the crazy Senate? Voting all on the holy Sabbath day for old-fashioned diabolical distribution of forests & voting unanimously in the face of that admirable report of the Academy Commission. These Western Senators are a bad lot, but we'll win at last …

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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 26., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 26., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM,
HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., February 26, 1897.

My dear Muir:

I happened to see the editor of The Atlantic Monthly yesterday who talked to me about Forest Reserves, etc., etc., and wanted the subject treated in his journal. I told him that there was but one [illegible], in the United States who could do it and that his name was John Muir. He is going to write you today on the subject. I should be glad to see you a contributor to that venerable and rather dull periodical. The circulation is not large out it carries weight …

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Letter From W[Aldemar] Lindgren To David S. Jordan, 1897 Feb 25., Waldemar Lindgren Feb 1897

Letter From W[Aldemar] Lindgren To David S. Jordan, 1897 Feb 25., Waldemar Lindgren

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR-

-UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-

Washington, D. C. Feb. 25,1897.

Professor. David S. Jordan,
Palo Alto, California.

Dear Sir:-

Your letter of December 18th, came duly to hand. On January 15th. the Forestry Commission, which then held a meeting in this building, called me before them. I explained the character of the forest areas of the high Sierras, and recommended that if the whole area on the Central Pacific road was not reserved that two smaller sections of forest might be reserved at the head waters of the middle fork of the American River and at the …

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Letter From W[Aldemar] Lindgren To George C. Perkins, 1897 Feb 25., Waldemar Lindgren Feb 1897

Letter From W[Aldemar] Lindgren To George C. Perkins, 1897 Feb 25., Waldemar Lindgren

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

-UNITED STATES GEOLOGICAL SURVEY-

WASHINGTON , D. C. Feb. 25, 1897.

Hon. George C. Perkins,

U. S. Senate, Washington, D. C.

Dear Sir:-

In a letter of December 18th. 1896, Prof. David S. Jordan of the Stanford University, requested me to call upon you and consult about the matter of the forest reservation of the high Sierras. The Sierra Club and many other people in California had asked him to take the matter before the Forestry Commission and before Secretary Francis. Prof. Jordan wrote to me because my official duties as a geologist have made me …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Feb 24., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Charles Sprague] Sargent, 1897 Feb 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 24, 1897.

My dear Prof Sargent.

Your report is the most glorious reading I have enjoyed for many a day & I'm watching eagerly the news from Washington It is presented in capital shape & I can't see how the President can fail to see its importance & seize this last grand chance to bless the world & himself. This should go far to make him happy again after the failure of his favorite Arbitration Treaty.
When the right time comes I'll do all I can in the way you indicate. Heaven bless You say I, & all …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 24., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 24., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 24, 1897

My dear Johnson,

I remember Mrs Osborn very well & admire her & will be glad to do all I can for her not only for your sake & hers but my own. Both the days you gave me at Garrisons were memorable & delightful everyway.
No doubt you have my letter telling the miserable outcome of our Yosemite business. But those magnificent forest reservations thirteen of them will go far to make us happy again. Sargent sent me a copy of the report & I am watching Washington eagerly A last grand chance for Grovers …

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Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 23., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 23., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass.,.....February...23...1897

My dear Muir:

I have heard that the President and Secretary of State signed the forest documents yesterday, so everything is safe as far as it goes. Now we must bend ourselves to getting the Reserves protected by the military. Would it be possible to get your legislature to pass a joint resolution favoring the plan? This would probably have more effect than anything else on politicians like McKinley; but whether this is done or not, we ought not to leave any stone unturned now and strike while the iron is hot. I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1897] Feb 21., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [1897] Feb 21., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb. 21, [1897]

My dear Mr. Johnson:

Ms. received and am hard at work on it making the changes you suggest. Will return it by Ex. in a day or two. Shall make a straight tourist trip, and another of discovery.
Am glad to get another lick at it as I am never satisfied with anything I write. Am nearly done with the first article. The compensation check was ample and I am obliged and ever

Your friend,

John Muir

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