Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
[Theodore P.] Lukens
Preview
Transcription
with the sheepowners have sent on agents to Washington to obtain leases of the entire Reservation for sheep grazing furing the coming seasonWe must at once get to work in quick hearty opposition to this, or soon there will be complete surrender at Washington & destruction of the forests & the interests depending on them.Please write to Perkins & to the Department of the Interior, & get as many others as you can to do the same. Bliss has gone but the man put in his place may be as bad.Write also to Gifford Pinchot, Washington D.C. He is now head of the Division of Forestry & needs bracing against sheepmen mining men etc assaults
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899-01-10T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0621-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0621
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
Copyright Statement
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission to publish or exhibit them, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
