Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Martinez, April 20, 1890.Dear Mr Johnson,I have just received yours of the 14th & make haste to answer it. I dont like Mack's last Times letter at all. The truth is, unless I am very much mistaken, he is with the adversary as an attorney. As long as he was dealing in generalities looking forward to what the present Yo. management wanted most of all, the extension of the grant, he did well. But as I knew all along that he was with the Washburn's or R.R. Co. I have been watching sharply for him to show his hand, as the gamblers say, & he has shown it in this letter oppossing the Vandever Bill. What he wants, & what the Stage & Hotel Co. want, & the R.R. Co want seems to me from Mack's letter to be just this, Let the grant be extended under promise of reformation of the management, & let the present management be their own reformers. The legislature meets next year Mack tells us & will be sure to grant any desired reformation of the "wicked sinful management." This may sound well in the east, but we know here that whatsoever the
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1890 Apr 20
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir06_0443-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0443
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
