Creator
S. Hall Young
Recipient
[John Muir]
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4ally settled. I don't feel as sure as they do, but have strong hopes. Your letter is very strong, and will have more influence than almost any other, for your name was mentioned in our interview and recognized by Maj. McKinley with enthusiasm. he said that he wished that kind of endorsements.Your thought of writing to Senator Perkins is both kind and good. I need a "friend at court" some senator who will keep my affliation before the Pres. and put through the confirmation if I am appointed. I have been relying upon Sen. Mitchell of Or. but he is having a hard fight for reelection just now; and at present his success seems doubtful. If Sen. Perkins is connected with Goodall Perkins & Co who forward the Pacific Coast Steamship Co. (as I think is the case) he would be just the one to act. He owes me a kindness, for I have secured his Co. many a5passenger by my descriptions of the wonders & glories of the trip - in my lectures & articles. I hope you can secure his active aid.Edward Marsden, a [Tsimpehean?] Indian from New [Mettahkahttah?], who has graduated at Marietta College and is now in the middle class at Lane Theol. Sem. Cincinnati, is with me just now. He is very intelligent and will make his mark. He has just been to see Maj. McKinley, - a delegate from his people to plead for their island which white miners are trying to get from them, and for such a settlement of the boundary question as will not give them back to British control. He tells me that [J?].G. Brady of Sitka is or will be an applicant for the governorship; also Mr. Johnson, former District Attorney. Both these men seem to me & to Marsden utterly unfit for the position. Maj. McKinley said to me that no one else had applied for the office when I saw him. so that I am the first. I wrote lately to Rear Admiral02237
Location
Wooster, Ohio
Date Original
1897-02-09T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 23 x 14 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0701-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0701
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
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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 3
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
