Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
San FranciscoAug. 15. 1891My Dear Mr JohnsonI sent the Kings article about 10000 words by registered mail half an hour ago (3 P.M.) & have just corrected names heights distances directions etc of the last of illustrations which I will forward with this. Robinsons elevations were nearly all greatly over estimated & none of them measured. I mad careful measurements during four visits to the valley with two good [illegible] still I do not claim exactness as that is impossible by such means. Therefore I say about so high. As to the names I am not at all satisfied with some of my own, but think most of them [illegible] better than Robinsons. Think of White Woman for a rock a mile high & two broad. No Whiter than any other mass of gray granite in the Valley. Robinson says it looks like a-
Location
San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1891 Aug 15
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir07_0251-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0251
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
