Creator

[Robert Underwood] Johnson

Recipient

John Muir

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December 4th, 1894.R.W.GILDER, EDITOR.R.U.JOHNSON,ASSOCIATE EDITOR.C.C. BUEL,ASSISTANT EDITOR.My dear Muir:-I have obeyed your injunctions to send copies of your book to the friends who were courteous to us last year. I have included Mrs. Fields, Miss Jewett, Col. Higgins on and Mrs. Sargent. These four copies have been charged to your account. A copy of Mr. Gilder's book and of the new volume of The Century Dictionary are also en route.I also send you copy of your article on "The Discovery of Glacier Bay" so that you may add the part about the Muir Glacier and keep the article from being thrown "out of bal­ance", as you say. My theory of it is that it is "out of bal­ance" now because you are too modest to talk about the Muir Glacier. This might be of a descriptive character and need not be more than a thousand words.Then if you wish, Mr. Gilder would be glad to have you write another article, as you suggest, of five or six thousand words called "Adventures on the Muir Glacier"; but let the latter be adventures with only incidental descriptions. In other words, put the descriptive part into the Glacier Bay article and let the adventures go by themselves. And then we01887

Location

New York

Date Original

1894-12-04T00:00:00

Source

Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.

Resource Identifier

muir08_0567-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 08, Image 0567

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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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