Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
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Transcription
2bring out as a book. The whole leafy thing being due to you.After Johnson got home he wrote that the Century Co. would like to bring out these forest articles in book form & when I replied that Houghton Mifflin had the promise of them & also of an Alaska book he wrote a six page letter of lamentation. - enough to make a fellow conceited. I told him I did not write enough to make a fuss about.What are we to do about forest matters? The sky looks mighty black & blue and I have no plan system or trick to save them. You must know far better then me what is best to be done I mean simply to go on hammering & thumping as best I can at public opinion hoping & praying in the meantime that we may get soon a president, Sec of the Interior & Land Agent that love trees & will try
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1898 Jan 3
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0021-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0021
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University Archives, Boston, Massachusetts. 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
