Creator
S. Hall Young
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
I was interested in your corrections, and gladly accept them with but onesmall exception: You have cut down the time it took you to get to me fromwhere you first saw me lying on the precipice from twenty minutes to twentyseconds. Yet you allow the sentence in which I speak of hearing you whistling and calling as you scrambled around the top of the slide and then down to my level. It certainly took minutes, and I thought I had your own computation of the time as we talked it over. I have compromised on ten minutes.I am deep in another story of the trail. I am counting the time till the shackles are off my hands and I can spend my whole time on this work. I am now taking care of three preaching places besides Cordova and am travelling almost half my time.By the way, have you read the poems of Robert W. Service? They are published in two volumes, under the titles The Spell of the Yukon and other Verses and Ballads of a Cheechako by Edward Stern and Co., Philadelphia. I consider Service the only real Poet of the North.Please write soon, and if you change your mind and come it will be all the better.Yours from the bottom of my heart,[illegible]
Location
Cordova Alaska
Date Original
1910 Aug 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir19_0730-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 19, Image 0730
Copyright Status
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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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 2
Keywords
John Muir, correspondence, letters, author, writing, naturalist, California, correspondent, mail, message, post, exchange of letters, missive, notes, epistle
