Creator
Walter H. Page
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
2have you made any definite arrangment about the publication of the book? If you have not, why might I not use such portions as you would care to have appear in magazine form, and then perhaps you will let me present the book publishing scheme to Messrs Houghton, Mifflin & Co?I am looking forward with some eagerness to the coming of your next paper--on Parks.--Maybe these new papers will continue til they, too, make a volume.Very Sincerely Yours,Walter H. PageJohn Muir Esq.[letterhead]25, June, 1897.Dear Mr Muir:We are getting your paper on The American Forests ready for the press, and Professor Sargent is writing to accompany it a brief statement of the recent work done to preserve them. That Professor Sargent is writing this little accompanying paper is a sort of secret, and I would not tell it outside the family.He told me the other day that you have in preparation a book about Alaska. If that be the case, let me ask if there be not portions of it that might be used in the Atlantic before they are published in book form. And, by the way,02303
Location
Boston
Date Original
1897-06-25T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir09_0931-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0931
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
