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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jun 18., John Muir Jun 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jun 18., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Cal. June 18 / 95

My dear Mr Johnson,

I think that all the talk of employing a reputable landscape gardener to lay out & manage the floor of Yosemite was intended to secure the cooperation of the Sierra Club in securing appropriations for the next two years. I never believed that the Yo. Commissioners really meant to turn over a new leaf in the management. California does not truly care for Yosemite for itself and here lies the difficulty.
Left in care of the Century these city Dog Days you are in a hard & hot place …

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Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Mary L. Swett Jun 1895

Letter From M[Ary] L. Swett To [Louie Strentzel] Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Mary L. Swett

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: 99]

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Hill Girt, June 14, 1895

My Dear Mrs. Muir,

Will you kindly hand the two enclosures to Mr. Muir, which I have copied from two letters received from Mrs. Forbes.
And now let me thank you and your husband heartily for the very handsome way in which you have given my darling Helen "a start in life."
She says she knows it is going to be delightful work and I hope it may

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[in margin: 99]

Extract from a letter by Mrs. Alex. Forbes

"We are enjoying intensely John Muir's Mountains of California. Verily …

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Letter From Cha[Rle]S F. Lummis To John Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Charle F. Lummis Jun 1895

Letter From Cha[Rle]S F. Lummis To John Muir, 1895 Jun 14., Charle F. Lummis

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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work," I think it can safely be promised to keep so.
Again, thank you.

Sincerely yours,

Chas. K. Lummis

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[letterhead]

June 14 1895

My dear Mr. Muir:

I am 20 pages farther along in your book (all my reading nowadays has to be done after 1 a. m., in bed, & you may be sure does not include much sleepy stuff) when in comes your letter to give me a still more intimate angle of you. You have the outdoor generosity & it does me good, & I want to thank you. But please pardon me for returning …

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Letter From John Muir To [Charles F.] Lummis, 1895 Jun 11., John Muir Jun 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Charles F.] Lummis, 1895 Jun 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, California June 11, 1895

My dear Mr Lummis,

Thanks for the Land of Sunshine. Please find enclosed subscription for the same for one year.
I have read your little plucky magazine & like it. It has the ring & look of true literary metal. So has your letter to me, & I doubt not you will be successful. You have a grand field & I am sure that with honest purpose & hard work you must gain the day.
I thank you for your kind words about my little book & for asking me to work for sunshine. I …

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Letter From William R. Dudley To John Muir, 1895 Jun 10., William R. Dudley Jun 1895

Letter From William R. Dudley To John Muir, 1895 Jun 10., William R. Dudley

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

June 10, 1895

Mr. John Muir

Dear Sir,

It is my intention to visit the forest region of the Sequoia Gigantis below King's River, this summer. I intend passing up as many of the forks of the Dur Cr. Tule R. and Kaweah R. as practicable observing the present condition of the forests, photographing some, collecting herbarium specimens of the flowers of the Sequoia region, and extending explorations into the high Sierras of Mts Brewer Tyndall & Whitney later in the season if we have time. A student accompanies me.
In conversation with Prof. John M. Stillman he expressed …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Jun 10., Robert Underwood Johnson Jun 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Jun 10., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

EDITORIAL-DEEPARTMENT
THE CENTURY-MAGAZINE
UNION-SQUARE-NEW-YORK

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

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

June 10th, 1895.

My dear Muir:-

The inclosed letter would seem to indicate that the report in the California newspaper which you sent to me, about legislation forbidding the cutting of trees, etc., in Yosemite was not accurate. Certainly no such bill is among the measures which have been sent to me by the Secretary of State.
Had there been any such bill I was intending, as we had criticised the Yosemite management, to take notice of the improved state of affairs. …

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Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jun 7., A. H. Sellers Jun 1895

Letter From A. H. Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Jun 7., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

June 7, 1895

My dear friend Muir,

Last week Wednesday it was arranged, & I was to write the next day, that we would be in San Francisco this week. A few days before this we went out to Woodstock to bury my mother, the weather was wet cold & dreary & Mrs. Sellers caught a severe cold, & on the Wednesday night above mentioned, it developed into quite a severe illness. The business that I was going to San F. on, was to attend a meeting there on June 15th in connection with a land scheme in Mountain …

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The Discovery Of Glacier Bay., John Muir Jun 1895

The Discovery Of Glacier Bay., John Muir

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

3VW -A THE DISCOVERY OF GLACIER BAY. BY ITS DISCOVERER. Y first visit to the now famous Glacier Bay of Alaska was made toward the end of October, 1879, wb.en young ice was beginning to form in the branch inlets occupied by the glaciers, and the mountains were mantled svith fresh snow all the way dosvn from the highest peaks and ridges of the Fair- weather Range nearly to the level of the sea. I had spent most of the season exploring the ...—"""* caiion of the Stickeen River and its glaciers, and a small portion of the interior region …

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Letter From H[Enry] D[Emarest] Lloyd To John Muir, 1895 May 30., Henry Demarest Lloyd May 1895

Letter From H[Enry] D[Emarest] Lloyd To John Muir, 1895 May 30., Henry Demarest Lloyd

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Winnetka, III., May 30, 1895.

Mr. John Muir,

Author of "Mountains of California",
C/o Century Co., New York.

Dear Sir:-

Having been put under deep obligations to you for the pleasure got from reading your exquisite book on the "Mountains of California", I take the liberty of seeking to get further in your debt. You were with Mr. Emerson in his trip to California in 1871. The Illegible Daily Chronicle, in its review of your book, alluded to the interchange of compliments between you and him, in which it said you returned his comparison of you with Thoreau by calling …

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Letter From Annie L. [Muir] To Wanda & Helen [Muir], [Ca. 1895] May 30 ., Annie L. Muir May 1895

Letter From Annie L. [Muir] To Wanda & Helen [Muir], [Ca. 1895] May 30 ., Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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I am hoping to have a letter from each of you soon. I miss the letters that used to come from you so often.
please give my love to your mamma & to dear Grandma Strentzel. I have given up hoping for letters from them, but perhaps they will give me a grand surprise some day.

Cordially & lovingly,

Your Aunt Annie L.

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Portage. Wis, May. 30--

Dear Wanda and Helen,

This is Decoration Day and I have just returned from the Court-House where the usual exercised of this day were held. We usually meet in the High …

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Letter From Annie L. Muir To [John Muir], [1895] May 30., Annie L. Muir May 1895

Letter From Annie L. Muir To [John Muir], [1895] May 30., Annie L. Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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usual again and will perhaps write to you herself before very long. The rest of us are in our usual health. Poor J. is still rather worried and anxious, but gets more money than before. She feels her position keenly and unkind remarks reach her ears sometimes which are hard to bear. but on the whole she bears up bravely.

With heart-felt love, and best wishes, Your Sister

Annie L. Muir

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Portage, Wis. May 30th

My Dear Brother John.

Your good letter came safely. Was so glad to hear from you again. I am sorry to say that …

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Letter From Melville B[Est] Anderson To John Muir, 1895 May 30., Melville Best Anderson May 1895

Letter From Melville B[Est] Anderson To John Muir, 1895 May 30., Melville Best Anderson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

30th May 1895

Dear Mr Muir:

Flugel [diacritic], Green, and I are starting off tomorrow (Friday) morning upon a little run on our bicycles via Walnut Creek to (or toward) Martinez. We should like to make you our objective point, but there is no time to hear from you now unless I telegraph which I shall do if we decide to call upon you. I want you and Flugel [diacritic] to meet. Green is also a good man.
If (or when) we arrive, should it not be perfectly convenient for you to entertain us overnight, you will kindly tell …

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Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To John Muir, 1895 May 27., Sarah Muir Galloway May 1895

Letter From Sarah M[Uir] Galloway To John Muir, 1895 May 27., Sarah Muir Galloway

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: some of our first Spring blossoms for Wanda.]

Portage Wis

May 27 / 95

My dear Brother John

A few days ago we had a delightful visit with Mr & Mrs Alverson. They just took us over the road again to your sunny, beautiful house, and telling us of you all, we could almost see you, and enjoy our walks among the vineyeards and orchards and our clambering among the hills once more. Yourself, Louie, and Grandma, were perfectly natural, but Wanda, as tall as her mother instead of the little girlie less then two years old, set …

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Letter From J[Ohn] Howard Brown To John Muir, 1895 May 25., John Howard Brown May 1895

Letter From J[Ohn] Howard Brown To John Muir, 1895 May 25., John Howard Brown

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

CABLE ADDRESS, "JOIST NEW YORK".

DICTATED
To By
IN MAKING REPLY, PLEASEQUOTE THIS NUMBER.

No 6/6aNEW YORK MAY 25 1895 l89IllegibleDear Sir: -We wish to insert a sketch of your life in the National Cyclopedia of American Biography, a work now in preparation, which will be to this country what the great National Biographies are to Europe. Will you therefore kindly have a biography prepared, or furnish me the data, together with brief mention of your ancestry, to enable me to write a proper article.
The Publishers make no charge whatever for the preparation and insertion of this sketch; neither …

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Letter From Mary Titus Hazelton To John Muir, 1895 May 18., Mary Titus Hazelton May 1895

Letter From Mary Titus Hazelton To John Muir, 1895 May 18., Mary Titus Hazelton

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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me as one of the old time friends. I remain with kind regards to yourself and family,

Very sincerely

Mary Titus Hazelton

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476 N. 3rd St. San Jose [diacritic]

May 18, 1895:

Dear Mr. Muir,

Last evening Mrs. Allen brought me "The Mountains of California" so kindly sent by you.
Ah, Mr. Muir, you are really becoming more charitable toward your less fortunate fellowman and woman I well remember when you positively refused the glaciers of Alaska to the lazy San Joseans, as you did not believe in study-

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[study-]ing glaciers while sitting in an easy …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 May 14., Robert Underwood Johnson May 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 May 14., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

May 14th, 1895.

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

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

Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.

My dear Muir:-

I have been hoping against hope that it would be possible for me to come to California this summer, but as Mr. Gilder is to sail next week for Europe, to be gone during the summer, and, in fact, for a year, with the exception of two months’ return in the fall, it does not seem possible for me to go so far away from the seat of war, and I therefore feel that I …

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Letter From Olive Thorne Miller To John Muir, [1895?] May 7., Olive Thorne Miller May 1895

Letter From Olive Thorne Miller To John Muir, [1895?] May 7., Olive Thorne Miller

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Pasadena. May 7th

(With Mrs Emma Bangs)

Dear Mr Muir:

Your cordial response to my letter and invitation to your house was received a day or two ago, and while it is just what one might expect from the writer of your books--it is something so uncommon in these

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days of--shall we call it cold-bloodedness--it is very delightful.
I shall certainly not fail to accept it as freely as it is given and as soon as I reach San Francisco will visit you again.
I have an invitation from one of the Profs in the Calif. Ac. …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 May 3., John Muir May 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 May 3., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez May 3, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson.

To both your questions the answer is No. I hate this personal rubbish & I have always sheltered myself as best I could in the thickest shade I could find, celebrating only the glory of God as I saw it in nature.
The foundations for the insignificant stories you mention are as far as I know about as follows. More than 20 years ago Prof. Runkle was in Yosemite & I took him into the adjacent wilderness & of course night & day preached to him the gospel of glaciers. When …

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Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1895 May 1., Helen S. Wright May 1895

Letter From Helen S. Wright To John Muir, 1895 May 1., Helen S. Wright

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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San Jose, Cal.,

May 1, 1895

Dear Mr. Muir,

I find genuine pleasure in your book, which you so kindly sent me. I had not yet seen it, though I had been quick to notice its coming from the press.
It makes one feel that the Douglas Squirrel, the Water-Ouzel, the wild sheep, and all the other living things you describe, are his very friends as well as yours.
The breath of the wild, free mountains is in it,

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as doubtless many have told you.
I am glad to see that the illustrations preserve the distinctive characteristics of …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Apr 30., John Muir Apr 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Apr 30., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez. Apr. 30, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson

I care little about names No map will melt the ice or kill a single crystal or flower. Let Prof Reid have his way if you think best. After me he has the best rights such as they chance to be.
And now R. U. when R. U. going to tell me what you are going to do with me this summer. I am at your disposal for Alaska or Sierra.

Ever cordially yours

John Muir


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Letter From Ina C[Oolbrith] To John Muir, 1895 Apr 29., Ina Coolbrith Apr 1895

Letter From Ina C[Oolbrith] To John Muir, 1895 Apr 29., Ina Coolbrith

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Dear John Muir,

Out of your treasury of poetic thoughts, can't you suggest a name for my book. Houghton-Mifflin are to take it. a reprint of my "Perfect Day," with additions. I want something that will localize it, and the appro-

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[appro-]priate I thought of Mad[illegible] Leaves" "Mist from the Golden Gate" and "various" but don't like 'em.

Yours helplessly,

Ina C.

Oakland,

Apr 29 / 95.

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 27., Robert Underwood Johnson Apr 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 27., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

New York, April 27, 1895.

Dear Muir:

Did Harvard ever offer you a professorship? and when? who brought it about? And did Agassiz say that you were the only man living who understood glacial action in the formation of scenery? and where did he say it?
These statements I have seen in an article on you which is too badly written to print, even if we could print another article on you. But I should like to know the facts on these two points.
Please drop me a line soon. I shall not make any disadvantageous use of your reply. …

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Letter From James D[Avie]Butler To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., James Davie Butler Apr 1895

Letter From James D[Avie]Butler To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., James Davie Butler

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

I could not get the copies I wanted

Keep my memories but I shall be glad if you will return loving words

[marginalia]

[letterhead]

April 23, 1895

John Muir.

[in margin: Keep my Memories but I shall be glad if you will return loving words-
I could not get the copies I wanted]

Two months ago I heard some rumors of a plot to kill me on the Ides of March--with kindness. All details were however kept so secret that the surprises were manifold.
Discourses might have been more deadly than daggers--dealing a slower death--But they were all short.
The …

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Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., Katharine Merrill Graydon Apr 1895

Letter From Katharine M[Errill] Graydon To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., Katharine Merrill Graydon

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[in margin: 808
Indianapolis
Letters]

[Apr 23 '95]

2580 College Ave.

Berkeley.

Dear Mr. Muir,

There is a young woman here, Mina Knapp, on the Call I believe, who wants so much to meet you and talk about birds & kindred things that I have asked her to go up with me some Sunday. Do you care, and may we come a week from Sunday, the 5th? Miss Knapp is

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not one of my friends, and I do not bring her as I should like to bring Miss Thompson; still, the request has come to me. I scarcely know …

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Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., Robert Underwood Johnson Apr 1895

Letter From R[Obert] U[Nderwood] Johnson To John Muir, 1895 Apr 23., Robert Underwood Johnson

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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

R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.

R. U. JOHNSON,

ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL,

ASSISTANT EDITOR.

April 23rd, 1895.

My dear Muir:-

Prof. Reid writes us that he has no objection to the changes in names which you have made in his sketch map of Glacier Bay, "though", he says, "the names which I have given, and which will appear in our larger map to be published shortly by the Geological Survey, will probably become official."

Yours ever

R. U. J.

Mr. John Muir,

Martinez, Cal.

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Letter From Jessie A. Pascoe To John Muir, [1895?] Apr 21., Jessie A. Pascoe Apr 1895

Letter From Jessie A. Pascoe To John Muir, [1895?] Apr 21., Jessie A. Pascoe

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

San Jose, Apr. 21

My dear Mr Muir:

On arriving at home after my travels, I find your lovely book awaiting me, and I hasten to smile, to tell you how much I appreicate your kindly remembrances, and how I shall enjoy its reading and possession.
It was very nice

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of you to send it me, and I thank you very much.
I had a delightful trip, enjoyed every minute of it.
Wishing you all good things I remain

Your loving friend

Jessie A. Pascoe

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Letter From A. H Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Apr 18., A. H. Sellers Apr 1895

Letter From A. H Sellers To John Muir, 1895 Apr 18., A. H. Sellers

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

[letterhead]

Apr 18, 1895

My dear Muir

Your kind note of the 11" inst reached me yesterday morning. Mrs. Sellers caught a severe cold the day before we left so that she did not have a very pleasant going home but we traveled in such royal style, she having a room all to herself, so that she came through with no more discomfort than she would have experienced at either end of the line. I find the San Francisco matter in such a shape that is looks now as tho' I would have to go out to your city sometime …

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Letter From Lucy M. Washburn To John Muir, 1895 Apr 18., Lucy M. Washburn Apr 1895

Letter From Lucy M. Washburn To John Muir, 1895 Apr 18., Lucy M. Washburn

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Near "Angels"

Calaveras Co. April 18, 1895

Dear Mr. Muir.

The precious book came safely. by Mr. Allens' hand. To whom could you have sent it who would enjoy it more keenly or who would appreciate more fully the honor of the gift? I have never forgotten your kindness to me when I came asking questions about Alaska and I have often wondered whether you received the magazine I sent you in which the article which owed so much to you was finally published. It never occurred to me that you would think of sending me your book. I …

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Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Apr 11., John Muir Apr 1895

Letter From John Muir To [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Apr 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

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Martinez, Apr. 11, 1895

My dear Mr Johnson

Thanks for your good stout hammering article on the vanishing forests.
A noisy dashing clashing wave of reform from New York reached this side of the continent but after a little inefectual smashing it has subsided leaving but little mark.
Our new governor Budd threatened to cut off the greater part of the Yosemite appropriations, & the Commissioners appealed to the Sierra Club for help. We made them promise that they would employ a skilled landscape gardener before we would assist them, but this like the feeble

Texan business will I …

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Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Apr 11., John Muir Apr 1895

Letter From John Muir To [A. H.] Sellers, 1895 Apr 11., John Muir

John Muir Correspondence (PDFs)

Martinez, Apr. 11, 1893

My dear Sellers

I was just about to write to you to find out how you were enjoying yourselves when your farewell letter reached me. Boo! I feel bad but the chance of your coming next June tempers the trouble to some extent. I'm glad you had a good time anyhow. I saw Keith last Friday. He is making money & fine pictures. There is a very pretty bit of landscape nicely framed for you, but we wanted to give you your choice of several. If you dont come in June we will choose it for …

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