Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
J. M. 2.The rest of the postscript. I own, gave me a shock. We cannot, of course, complain of your printing elsewhere any material that may have been declined here, and of course you know we have declined nothing of yours except where we have been shooting through the same hole for a long time, being afraid that we had bored our readers with the subject of forestry, as up to six or eight months ago we were absolutely the only magazine in the country that had touched that subject at all, and we had identified "The Century" with it. But we hoped that before you came to book publication you would have naturally turned to us, even if later you should have concluded in the long run to accept a more advantageous offer elsewhere. Mr. Scott, our President, does not remember any unwillingness to take the risk of publishing your first book, the fact being that we did publish your first book and have sold three thousand copies of it. We suppose we are too good-natured with our authors. What we ought to do is to get them in a corner and make them sign away their freedom to us for all time, as other people do. It isn't so much a separate article here or there that we should care about, but the fact that another house has taken away one of our authors, as we had come to look upon you. it is like having a child kidnapped Perhaps if the editors had less fear of seeming indelicate in pushing business matters with their friends they would be able to withstand the insidious attacks of our more active rivals. As the same thing has Just happened to one of Mr. Gilder's intimate friends, whom he thought he had anchored in02373
Location
New York
Date Original
1897-12-14T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_1196-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 1196
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Page Number
Page 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
