Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] J[ohnson]
Recipient
John Muir
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Transcription
Sept. 6, 1914.Dear Muir:How are you? What is the status of the farmers' protest against the Hetch Hetchy wickedness? Has the latter been enjoined?Here are some lines I wish you to see--my protest against the Kaiser's deviltry which everybody here abhors, except the Germans.I am home for the season, being very well and hard at work at the problem of three meals a day. Things are better with me, but the War has cost me dearly and has postponed my work on the Academy endowment, though I am laying a little pipe.The Century people by not following my policy and warning have made a financial mess of things. The dismissed my successor and tried to sell the magazine but were enjoined and compelled to reorganize. They have one good man in the directory and the amateur financiers are out. It is a sorry vindication for me!Have you seen the Life of Cavour (2 volumes) by William Roscoe Thayer? It is a fine piece of work and he is much talked of for the next literary member of the Academy along with Cass Gilbert the Architect of the Woolworth Building and many other fine structures. Nominations will soon go out with ballots.Faithfully thine and longing for good news of you.R.U.J.[Robert Underwood Johnson]05842
Location
[New York]
Date Original
1914 Sep 6
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 27 cm.
Resource Identifier
muir22_0631-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0631
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
