Creator
P. B. Van Trump
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
[2] 01334By the paper I shall mail along with this you will see that I took the liberty of letting the Tacoma Ledger publish your interesting letter, or a part of it. The compositor has made an error or [illegible] and the Editor has taken, unauthorized, the liberty of substituting Mt. Tacoma for Mt. Rainier. You will have to be patient and [enduring?] with him. He has served me the same way in previous publications. It would be a moral impossibility for a bona fide Tacomaite to let the name Rainier pass through his lips or drop from his pen. The corporate limits of the Hub of the Universe are suffused, of course, to enclose the environs of that giant3mountain. The gallant and distinguished Vancouver was obtusely blind to the great future (of the terminus) where, in honor of his illustrious English friend, he applied that culpable name to the “noblest Roman” of all our [illegible]. The Tacomaites call the mountain Tacima, thier [terminus?] Tacoma, thier bay Tacoma, and now with the veriest greed of selfish nomenclature they are clamoring to have the [illegible] of Congress admit the Territory under the name of Tacoma. I verily believe that when good Tacomaites die and go to heaven if they don’t find the most beatified portion of Paradise called Tacoma, or at least its principal golden thoroughfare, they will despondently hang their heads, turn
Location
Yelm, W[ashington] T[erritory]
Date Original
1889 Jan 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir06_0029-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0029
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Owning Institution
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
