Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
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Transcription
[in margin: [Prof?] F[illegible]26Martinez, April 3, 1894My dear Mr JohnsonThe book, begotten Heaven knows when is finished and out of me, therefore Hurra etc. and thanks to you, very friend, for benevolent prodding. Six of the sixteen chapters are new, and the others are nearly so, for I have worked hard on every one of them, leaning them against each other, adding lots of new stuff, and killing adjectives and adverbs of redundant growth--the verys, intenses, gloriouses, ands and buts--by the score. I feel sure the little alpine thing will not disappoint you. Anyhow I've done the best I could. Read the opening chapter when you have time. In it I have ventured to drop into the poetry that I like but have taken good care to place it between bluffs and buttresses of bald glacial geological facts.Mrs. Muir keeps asking me whether it is possible to get Johnson to come out here this summer. She seems to regard you as a Polish brother. Why I'll be hanged if I know. I always thought you too cosmically good to be of any clanish nation.By the way I wring these last months of abnormal cerebral activity I have written another article for the Century which I'll send you soon. Ever very truly your friend John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-04-03T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0177-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0177
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
