Creator

John Muir

Recipient

Houghton Mifflin Co.

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File No. 449Garrisons on Hudson, N. Y.,August 2. 1911.Houghton Mifflin Co.,Boston,Dear Sirs:In reply to your last letter of recent date, I leave for South America on the 15th of this month, and it seems unlikely that I shall be able to make satisfactory arrangement for the seria1 publication of my Boyhood and Youth at present. You stated that you could probably arrange for publication with McClure or some others. In any case I have made up my mind to delay publication until time has been given for its serial publication. I have spent about a week on it and have, I think, greatly improved it; one advantage of delay. I have been so very busy completing the Yosemite Book that the Century Company is to bring out that I have had very little time for anything else. I appreciate what you say as to the uncertainity of life, but this uncertainity unfortunately applies to publishers also and probably, all things considered it will be better to pospone the[illegible]

Location

Garrisons on Hudson, N. Y.

Date Original

1911 Aug 2

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir20_0556-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 20, Image 0556

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

The Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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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