Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles Sprague] Sargent
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the best I can with a heart for any fate.We are having a hard fight again a lot of San Francisco politicians & speculators who are trying to spil Yosemite National Park by damming & destroying the Hetch Hetchy Valley, a counterpart of Yosemite, for a reservoir. & excluding the public from more than half of the park whose waters drain into H.H. I wish you could help [me?] in this. Pinchot is doing all he can in this destructive work against us. All the national parks are in danger By the way Yosemite Valley is in desperate need of a landscape architect to lay out roads & trails & thin out the undergrowth of young conifer You are the only one whose taste I could trust on so grand a job. Would you undertake it if offered? Remember me to all the family & believe me ever faithfully yoursJohn Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1909 Aug 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir18_0650-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 18, Image 0650
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
