Creator
W[illiam] P. Gibbons
Recipient
[John Muir]
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Transcription
Alameda 11/9th 1894Dear JohnHere I am again in my old quarters, where my brain has been so long absorbing nutriment from surrounding books, like a calf sucking milk from its mothers udder. There's plenty of milk left, but somehow or other the apparatus for taking it in, is not in such complete order as in days past, & may be, the mental appetite is not so ravenous, as when the arguments of Knowledge brought in their precious freights during the noonday of manhood.What think you? A month ago, after winnowing out most of the chaff from the Ms. which was returned to me from the Century Mag. with a polite note that they had "the pleasure of reading it" but--etc. I mailed it to Scribner & like the prodigal son, it came home again last week, accompained with the usual "but." Those publishers must have some pretty good goats' foreheads. Now I know there's not a line of nonsense or chaff in that paper, & I would not have been ashamed to subject it to the criticism of the lamented Dr. Holmes or any other master spirit of the literary world & more than that, its all new matter. Well, I own to be disappointed, es-01871
Location
Alameda [Calif]
Date Original
1894-11-09T00:00:00
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 20.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir08_0501-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0501
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
