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

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., February -19,1897.

My dear Muir:

Are you making any general attack on Judge McKtnn$? There is not much time to lose about this, and,unless he can be brought against us and now is the time for action. firmly into line,there is no chance whatever of getting a bill passed this spring to authorize the use of the military in the Reserves and parks. I. should think it would be possible to get some sort of a strong demonstration made in Los Angeles and other southern communities; of course it will not be possible …

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Letter From C[Harles] Sprague Sargent To W[Illia]M R. Dudley, 1897 Feb 19., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C[Harles] Sprague Sargent To W[Illia]M R. Dudley, 1897 Feb 19., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass., Feb. 19, 1897.

Copy

My dear Professor Dudley:

[no ellegable]

Our Nal Jursbay Commission is going to recommend the passage of the enclosed bill by the extra session of Congress in order to secure protect ion for the Reserves the summer. It is currently believed that the new Secretary of the Interior is to come from California and it is very desirable that he should come east fully impressed ith the idea of the importance Of preserving the Reserves and National Parks by aid of the military, I find there is no authority …

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Letter From F[Rancis] George To John Muir, 1897 Feb 18., Francis George Muir Feb 1897

Letter From F[Rancis] George To John Muir, 1897 Feb 18., Francis George Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Valona Feb 18th 97

Mr John Muir

Dr Sir.

Enclose find Ck for $451 50/100 to be credited as follows
Please have Deed made & seconded for lot 4 B. 12 to Charles Jacobsen 251.50
on " 3 " 12 " " " balance 200 in 1 year 25 --
" " 1 " 16 " Geo Peters 100 --
" " 7 " 34 " Wm Fairclough 50 --
of Pietro Guerrierri interest on morgage 16 --
" J. Ongowarski rent for Feb 9
Mr Jacobsen wanted lot 2 so I let him have it on condition that he …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 18., Robert Underwood Johnson Feb 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 18., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIEL-DEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION- SQUARE-NEW-YORK

February 18th, 1897

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

My dear Muir:-

About a fortnight ago, Mrs. Osborn, mother of Fair-field, left New York for Japan by way of the Pacific Slope. The information having reached us here that the bubonic plague has reached Japan from India, Prof. Osborn is inclined to telegraph his mother not to sail as she intended to do on the 4th of March. In case she should decide not to do so, she will probably be in California quite a little while, in …

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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 [Theodore P. Lukens] To John Muir, 1897 Feb 15., Theodore P. Lukens Feb 1897

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

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

T. P. Lukens, President

William Stanten, Vice Prest.

E. E. Jones, Cashier.

Pasadena National Bank

CAPITAL PAID UP IN GOLD COIN $100.000??

Pasadena Cal. Feb. 15th, 1897.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My Dear Mr. Muir:-

Your Favor of the 14th is at hand. I am very sorry indeed it was not so you could go to Sacramento at the time I telegraphed you. I was anticipating the enemies of the bill would rush the matter through before the people had a chance to investigate it. They knew very well if the matter was ventilated that it would pass the …

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Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Feb 14., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Theodore P.] Lukens, 1897 Feb 14., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

as to recession of Yosemite to Nat Government

Martinez Feb 14 1897

My dear Lukens.

As you no doubt have seen by the newspapers our resolution for Yosemite recession has failed in the Assembly. I wrote to Melick & others on the recipt of your telegram and got a resolution in its favor from the Sierra Club but not soon enough to be of use at present. I also tried to get Mr. Olney & McAllister to go with me to Sacramento to speak & work for the measure but at length had to go alone, though far from being …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 11., Robert Underwood Johnson Feb 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 11., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

February 12th, 1897

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, California.
My dear Muir:-

I was delighted to hear, the other day, by telegram from Shinn, that a bill for recession had been reported favorably in the California Assembly, and new your note gives me the text of the bill.
Shinn asked me to send strong telegrams to Melick, but after solicitously thinking the matter over, it seemed to me that 1 would do more harm than good in that way, and 1 have written Shinn to that effect, …

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

Letter From C[Harles] 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;

Thanks for your letter which I find this morning on my return from Washington and for the information it contains. I find here also the enclosed which I am turning over to you for your consideration as you are the person who does not see differences and who leads me out of the straight and narrow paths which separate Murrayana and contorta and ponderosa and Jeffreyi. When you have sufficiently pondered Lenmon's letter 1 should be glad to have you return it to me.

Faithfully yours,

C. …

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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 S. Hall Young To [John Muir], 1897 Feb 9., S. Hall Young Feb 1897

Letter From S. Hall Young To [John Muir], 1897 Feb 9., S. Hall Young

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Wooster, Ohio Feb. 9, 1897.

Friend of my heart,

Your two letters have arrived almost together. This is a red letter day to me. I was a little fearful that my silence & neglect would render the reception of my tardy letter cool. You see my conscience is not altogether dead. And now to have you pour out your kindness and love before me in this way breaks me all up. God bless you! I know my feelings toward you have been growing deeper & warmer all these years, & now I see that friendship when it is true is …

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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 R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 6., Robert Underwood Johnson, George C. Perkins Feb 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1897 Feb 6., Robert Underwood Johnson, George C. Perkins

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

February 6th, 1897

My dear Muir:-

The inclosed letter from Senator Perkins will interest you. Will you please consider it confidential, though it is not marked "personal". It seems to me that it is well for the friends of recession to know that the Senator is with us.

Yours Faithfully R. U. Johnson,

Mr. John Muir

Martinex, Cal.

02235

United States Senate,

WASHINGTON, D. C,

Feb 3d. 1897.

R.U. Johnson. Esq.,

"Century Magazine, New York City, N. Y.

My dear Sir:-

I am in receipt of …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 5., John Muir Feb 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Feb 5., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Feb 5, 1897.

My dear Johnson-

I see that another attempt is being made at Washington to cut off the townships along the north boundary of the Yosemite National park-the Old Caminetti job. This portion of the park is nobly forested, abounds in fine trout streams & lakes tributary to the Tuolumne & is easily accessible from the rest of the park & must of course be defended. Instead of throwing this region open to destruction the whole mountain region northward to the American River should be reserved at once.
I received your last letter yesterday I 11 try …

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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 C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 2., Charles Sprague Sargent Feb 1897

Letter From C[Harles] S. Sargent To John Muir, 1897 Feb 2., Charles Sprague Sargent

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

Jamaica Plain, Mass, February 2, 1897

My dear Muir:

I have your note of the 25th this morning but I am afraid it is too late to make any changes in the name of the proposed California Reserve. I am going to Washington Thursday to see if I can get it established, but even that is doubtful.
I see that there is a strong probability of a California man being Secretary of the Interior. Of course the attitude of the Secretary of the Interior to the forestry question and to our Commission will mean a great …

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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 Peter L. Trout To John Muir, 1897 Jan 30., Peter L. Trout Jan 1897

Letter From Peter L. Trout To John Muir, 1897 Jan 30., Peter L. Trout

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[1]

Alaska Hotel Seattle Monday 30 '97

To Prof John Muir.

My dear sir

I have just received a letter from my brother William in Milwaukee to whom I sent a copy of this paper of which the enclosed is a clipping. He seemed much interested and recommended me to send this clipping to you as you would also like to see it. Accordingly I enclose it. He also gave me the following assurance that you are just the same John Muir that I had knokwn thirty years ago notwithstanding the magnificant success that you have made of life; and …

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Letter From Edwin H. Abbot To John Muir, 1897 Jan 29., Edwin H. Abbot Jan 1897

Letter From Edwin H. Abbot To John Muir, 1897 Jan 29., Edwin H. Abbot

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

WISCONSIN CENTRAL COMPANIES.

PRESIDENT'S OFFICE.

WISCONSIN CENTRAL R. R. Co.
MILWAUKEE & LAKE WINNEBAGO R. R. Co.
CHICAGO, WISCONSIN & MINNTSOTA R. R. Co.

EDWIN H. ABBOT,
PRESIDENT.

MILWAUKEE, WIS., Jany. 29, 1897.

[illegible]

Prof. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

Your kind letter of Jany. 19th is forwarded me here where I am for a few days. I agree with every word you say, and I think that Robert Herrick struck the key-note when he spoke of the fulness of Philip's life. It was singularly complete. It was an ideal life, so to speak, which would afterwards be …

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Letter From S. Hall Young To [John Muir], 1897 Jan 26., S. Hall Young Jan 1897

Letter From S. Hall Young To [John Muir], 1897 Jan 26., S. Hall Young

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Wooster (not Worcester) Ohio. Jan 26, '97.

Friend of my Soul:

Your letter has reached me this minute and I will answer it "while it is hot."
I acknowledge my culpable neglect of your much valued correspondence. (That sounds formal, but it is sincere.) But you surely got my note written last Spring, immediately after your first letter. If you did not, you must have left on your profound trip before it arrived. Not hearing any response to that, and the other being long delayed in the P.O. of Cedar Falls, Iowa, I did not send the account of Stickine …

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Letter From J.M. Stillman To John Muir, 1897 Jan 25., J. M. Stillman Jan 1897

Letter From J.M. Stillman To John Muir, 1897 Jan 25., J. M. Stillman

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Jan 25 97

My dear Mr. Muir

Your kind and appreciative note on the Tehipite article is at hand. I am glad you are pleased with it, and am also glad you find it too short rather than too long. I realize with astonishment the remarkable feat of your first trip to Tehipite and back in those days without food. I am sure I never was capable of such a feat even if I could have known the way thoroughly. I should probably have strayed widely from the course. I shall look forward sometime before long to the pleasure …

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Letter From Cha[Rle]S H. Allen To John Muir, 1897 Jan 24., Charles H. Allen Jan 1897

Letter From Cha[Rle]S H. Allen To John Muir, 1897 Jan 24., Charles H. Allen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

02225

[1]

Alameda Jany. 24 '97

My dear Muir:

I am spending a few days on Magee's ranch, showing his man how to prune and heat his trees. Between times I come down here 1428 McPherson St. and see Hattie. You may not know that there is a young Allen Muir Ray here, born Dec 23, but such is the case.
Mrs. Allen is also here. And wants me to write you on another matter. She is connected with an Indian Association in San Jose,

02225

[2]

and they are trying to raise money to carry on the mission school …

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Letter From George H. Warner To John Muir, 1897 Jan 21., George H. Warner Jan 1897

Letter From George H. Warner To John Muir, 1897 Jan 21., 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, January 21s, 1897

John Muir Esq.
Martinez, Cal.

Dear Mr. Muir:-

I have your letter of January 14th, with the photograph enclosed, which I shall use in the article headed by your name, and I will ask the Century Company to give their consent to the use of the chapter.
Now, as to the article on Linnaeus, your letter gives …

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Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, [Ca. 1897] ? 21., M. H. Myrick Jan 1897

Letter From M. H. Myrick To John Muir, [Ca. 1897] ? 21., M. H. Myrick

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Tuesday, 21st

My dear Mr Muir

I just have yours of 19th and am glad you can come Thursday. So, Thursday be it.
I sent my note of yesterday, so that Mrs. M. would know_
I am happy _ God and Liberty!

Ever yours

M H. Myrick

Residence, 318_ 14th st, near Narrow Gauge station--Oakland--at 16th at Station, you can take Electric car, which will take you almost to my house.
We can sleep you.

02201

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Letter From [Abbigail A. Allen] To John Muir, [1897?] 21., Abbigail A. Allen Jan 1897

Letter From [Abbigail A. Allen] To John Muir, [1897?] 21., Abbigail A. Allen

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)


[3]

of your books again and came on this little trip turning the key on the [illegible] door not leaving for any of my good neighbors to read in my absence. for this I have seen punished for my naughty selfishness.
I shall enclose a copy of [John?] Allens poem on "Sins of Omission" to the little daughter that sent me her Photo and if she so wishes one to the [illegible] brighter sister

Mrs Allen


02203

[1]

Alameda

Dec. 21st

Dear Mr Muir

It was too good of you to so quickly send August the story of the "Dog …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jan 18., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jan 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Jan 18, 1897.

My dear Johnson,

Dont write any more letters to Elliot McAllister Sec of the Sierra Club They will only be thrown away, for he is only a dull booby politician. At a directors meeting held last Saturday, our Vice president Olney offered a resolution advising the recession of Yosemite to form part of the National Parkwhich naturally it is, when McAllister got up & read a letter of yours & angrily declared he did not see why any cranky man in New York should interfere with Californias parks etc. Prof Davidson also objected, saying California ought …

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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 [Warren] Olney, 1897 Jan 18., John Muir Jan 1897

Letter From John Muir To [Warren] Olney, 1897 Jan 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

02222

Martinez, Jan. 18, 1897.

My dear Olny.

I think with you that a resolution like the one you offered the other day, should be thoroughly discussed & studied before final action is taken & a close approximation made to unanimity if possible. Still I dont see the one or two objectors should have the right to kill all action of the club in this or any other matter rightly belonging to it, Prof. Davidsons objection is also held by Prof Leconte or was but how they can consistently sing praise to the Federal gov. in the management of the …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] To John Muir, 1897 Jan 17., Robert Underwood Johnson Jan 1897

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] To John Muir, 1897 Jan 17., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

January 17th, 1897

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.

C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.

My dear Muir:-

I thank you very much for your note about McAllister-, and also for the good news about the prospect of the Club taking up recession. 1 shall act upon your warning, and I shall also write a note to Senator Perkins to ask him about the parliamentary procedure in case recession should be favored in the Legislature. It is possible that a joint resolution of Congress will be necessary, declaring that in the event of …

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