Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Osborn [family]
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Transcription
To Mr. + Mrs. Henry Fairfield OsbornMartinez, Jan. 4, 1914Dear Friends Osborns:With all my heart I wish you a happy New Year. How hard yon have fought in the good fight to save the [illegible] Yosemite I well know. The battle has lasted twelve years, from Pinchot & Co. to President Wilson, and the wrong has prevailed over the best aroused sentiment of the whole country.That a lane lined with lies could be forced through the middle of the U. S. Congress is truly wonderful even in these confused political days-a devil's masterpiece of log-rolling road-making. But the approval of such a job by scholarly, virtuous, Princeton Wilson is the greatest wonder of all! Fortunately wrong cannot last; soon or late it must fall back home to hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.With the new year to new work right gladly we will go; you to your studies of God's lang syne people in their magnificent Wyoming-Idaho Mausoleums, I to crystal ice.Heaven bless you in all your ways,So devoutly prays your grateful admiring friendJohn Muir05667
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1914 Jan 4
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Resource Identifier
muir22_0033-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0033
Copyright Status
Copyrighted
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
