Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
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Jamaica Plain, Mass..................April 28,...............1890.My dear Muir:I have a letter from Dr. WolcottAdescribing the recent meeting of the National Academy in Washington in which he says,- "Wolcott gave an account of his work on the forestry question and said that ninety per cent, at least of the recommendations of. your report were adopted and that there had been a complete change of feeling and information in regard to the whole forest question, even Senator Pettigrew had come out as violently for the recommendations of the report as he formerly was against them." He further stated that in a very few years United States officers would have charge of the forest lands as in the Yellowstone at present. Wolcott then Introduced Pinchot who gave an account of his own wonderful work. Nothing of what was said will be published I suppose." As I have already written Gibbs, this would be all right if anybody could believe what Wolcott says, but he is a good deal more of a sharp politician than he is a geologist, and I give no credence to anything which he, Hague or Pinchot say about forests, for I know they are all selfish in the matter and working for ends of their own. If Pettigrew has withdrawn his opposition it is because he has got what he wants and not from any enthusiasm about forest preservation.02568
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1899-04-28T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir10_0757-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0757
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 1
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
