Creator

John Muir

Recipient

John Burroughs

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IllegibleMartinez Nov. 26/09Dear John Burroughs,I have read your Yosemite Ms. and can make nothing of it, You Raw so little of the Valley I think you had better say little or nothing on its origin. Leave it all out is my advice. It can do no good to yourself or others to try to tell what you have had no chance to know. Compare this haphazard "brazen ignorance With the careful loving life-logg bird studies that made you famous. You must he growing daft. You say," Come study the geology of the Catskills--those Devonian rocks". Could I do it in a day as you did Yosemite, I would come flying.Remember me to the Doctor and Harriet.Ever faithfully your friend and admirer,John Muir,Your impressions of the Valley as Scenery everybody Will enjoy reading without any blurring origin stuff,Illegible

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1909 Nov 26

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir18_0919-trans.tif

File Identifier

Reel 18, Image 0919

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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.

Copyright Holder

Muir-Hanna Trust

Copyright Date

1984

Page Number

Page 1

Keywords

John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle

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