Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
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affairs in grand devil may care right or wrong style & denounced my poor peeping letter on the valley with great vigor but with fine fatherly regard withal. I quoted your favorite saying on the power of understatement in contentions of this sort but he would have none of it. He modestly declared that the cure for all the Yo woes was a band of lovely disinterested commissioners made up of He Me & Hutch.. He, the artist with the eye, Hutch with the long love & me the poetico-trampo-geologist-bot [botanist] & ornith [ornithologist] - natural etc etc !-!-! ! I told him that you mentioned the possibility of a short paper on Kings
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1889 Sep 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir06_0245-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0245
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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 4
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
