Creator
Walter H. Page
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
THE WORLD'SWORKFARMINGDOUBLEDAY PAGE & CO.133-135-137 EAST 16TH STREET, NEW YORKCOUNTRY LIFEIN AMERICATHE GARDENMAGAZINEJuly 28, 1908.Dear Mr. Muir:Since I wrote to you a day or two ago this thought has occurred to me:I remember that you told me that there was a continual demand for some newspaper letters that were among your earliest writings. I suspect that a good deal of the matter in these newspaper letters might make a good book if you take a good part of it and get it in shape. I know very well how difficult it is to do this. In the first place, the mere physical labor of arranging old things of this sort deters a man.Now comes my suggestion. There is a young man at Fresno. Mr. French Strother, who was for several years a member of my editorial staff. He is one of the nicest fellows I ever knew and he is a very capable literary workman. I believe he met you on a train once somewhere out in California. I recall distinctly that ha wrote some anecdotes in the magazine about you. How it might be helpful to you if you would let Strother come to see you and spend a week with yon or in your neighborhood, or a month, if need be, and let him arrange and straighten out these things in a way that would be helpful to you; and he could do any sort of physical work that you would permit him to do about getting your reminiscenes or autobiography, or whatever you are going to call that great book, into shape.The privilege of being of some such service as this would make Strother very happy indeed. I can think of nothing in the world that would be ao inter-eating an experience for him. He left our service because his health made it necessary to move away from Hew York. He cannot safely live in a big city, and he went back to Fresno where his kinspeople live, but he is motets happy only when he is writing, and he would bring one of the finest enthusiasms you ever saw to the task of serving you. If you can find it convenient to let him have some time with you in this way I should be glad to put him at your service.04250
Location
New York
Date Original
1908 Jul 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir17_0789-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0789
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
