Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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13From John MuirMartinez, Cal. Jan. 13, 1893.My dear Mr Johnson.I was very glad to get your letter of Dec 8th showing you were well again, as good a man as before your dangerous illness or better with all your capacity for work & fight & poetry jubilant & exuberant I heartily congratulate you & bid you godspeed over the ways of the New Year. I should have written you long ere this but for sickness in the family. For more than a week I did not take off my clothes; watching by the bed of my sick babies. All are well again Thank Heaven. By the way Arme’s father died a short time ago 2& this probably was the cause of his not answering your letters; for he is heartily in favor of the recession of Yosemite & a good worker & good fighter. I think that not less than nine-tenths of the people of Cal are in favor of the recession of the Valley to the Gen Government to be made a part of the national park which naturally it is, But among the other tenth are those who are pecuniarly interested & one man whose pocket is touched to the quick will do more fighting in a case of sentiment & scenery than a thousand who only look at the question in a careless abstract way though they look in the right direction. Very few people in3California care for scenery to any appreciable extent,-to the extent say of subscribing 25 cents each to save Yosemite from being sunk in the sea. El Capitan meadows forests & all though nominally on the right side, We have a few good workers in the Sierra Club those who have friends in the legislature or in Congress have written to them, I have written to Noble & we have got the S.F. Call to take up the subject & some good lively columns are being printed. One of our directors is a state Senator Mr McAllister & he will introduce a bill for recession. Our Sec of State is cordially with us, but the governor seems to be
Location
Martinez, Cal
Date Original
1893 Jan 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir07_0746-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0746
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
