Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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4against us, Anyhow sooner as later we must be successful. Allen a special Agent of the Interior Department, attended one of the meetings of the directors of our club & submitted his report asking suggestions & [illegible] in the Yosemite & Tulare Reservation aims & this report probably submitted ere this is as strongly favorable as we could make it. We meet again tomorrow chiefly for the Yosemite question & will do what we can. Your Century editorial was capital And now your poems – it goes without saying that so keen a literary sharp would write nothing silly even in verse but I never knew before that you were so much a poet.5I have sauntered through your songs, only once & doubtless have missed much of the best they hold, but I am going to them again. I too love the [illegible]rse ever golden & am glad you set it “at the door of your little book – suggestive of the gold within.[“?] The Winter Hour is a fine manly well-balanced poem but you should not have introduced candle-light as you have in the second line, Candle light is a feeble greasy smutty thing: rather you should have gone straight to the glowing god like heart of the fire on the hearth. “The world is saved not lost by fire” a good line, Here you might possibly have hinted Volcanoes, god’s hearths77about which wheat & wine, life & light abound. "Where's a warmer friend than fire" is certainly a safe question. The "Hearth song" is lively & goes dancing on like a hillside stream. Fireflies mock the early stars, - a good line, & so is "the music's lullaby Locks down at last the sleepy eye"- -where Beyond the midnight & the dawn Has now that other footstep gone- Very fine Poets that keep the world in heart Milton's massive lines that pour like waves upon a windward shore Wordsnorth's refuge from the crowd - -like a lark that mounts so high He sees not earth but from the sky fine lines all of them A [illegible] of Dagnan-Bouveret is charming
Location
Martinez, Cal
Date Original
1893 Jan 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir07_0748-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0748
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
