Creator

R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson

Recipient

John Muir

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February 10th, 1893.R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.R.U. JONSON,ASSOCIATE EDITOR.C. C. BUEL,ASSISTANT EDITOR.John Muir, Esq.Martinez, California.My dear MuirNow, if ever, is the time to push Yosemite recession to a vote in the California Legislature, as well as to labor with the Governor in ease you see any prospect of getting the bill through(illegible) I say "now", because I have just had an interview with Mr. Alien, special agent of the Department, who tells me that he saw you in San Francisco, and that Noble's great scheme for the reservation of the upper Sierra, from Wawona to the latitude of Bakersfield, is to be proclaimed very soon.For reasons which I have already expressed to you in a recent letter which you had not received when you wrote your note of the 3rd of February, nothing practical can be done in Congress until we hear the result of the movement in the California Legislature. It is very desirable that if you cannot succeed you should get the thing to a vote, at least, for that would give us an excuse for moving for an investigation* as 1 shall certainly do upon the reassembling of Congress in extra session, this spring. I shall have a motion made for a Congressional investigation, and report01424

Location

…Union Square, New York

Date Original

1893 Feb 10

Source

Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.

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muir07_0788-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 07, Image 0788

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Page Number

Page 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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