Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[C. Hart] Merriam
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Transcription
Martinez, Bee. 31, 1901.My dear Merriam,Happy New Tear to yon all. Hay it be as mountainous and good as the last.The grand lot of beautiful pictures I have already acknowledged in a letter that seems to have gone astray. Many of these photos are the best I have ever seen of the Sierra. I am sorely troubled about my publishers failing to give credit to photographers as I directed and although I carefully wrote the makers name on every photograph I sent them. Not only this but in an advertisement they sent out they say that the book is illustrated by photographs "many of which were taken by the author." Of course I immediately wrote to Houghton-Mifflin about it saying that I never took a single photo in my life, calling attention to their neglect to give credit, and asking them to correct these blunders and omissions, etc. The advertisements they said would be stopped etc. and made vague excuse for mistakes.As to the Oregon and Washington sheep pasturage. Pinchot said to me in Seattle when I called his attention to an interview in a morning paper that sheep did no harm in the Oregon and Washington forests. This he printed in the principal newspapers soon after the Cleveland reserves were proclaimed with a view to still the storm of protest, and thus he made the hearts of the sheepmen glad. Coville too and indeed nearly the whole Bureau sing the same song, in some form, to avoid opposition and trouble of western Senators.--02912
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1901 Dec 31
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir11_1080-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 1080
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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
