Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
11
Martinez Dec 5, 1891
My dear Mr Johnson
I have been making [inquires?] about [Havens & Stow?] [Havens?] is an insurance agent or something of that sort & seems heartily in favor of making the reservation. Mr Stow is an able, noted & notorious politician man unscrupulous some say than our celebrated Boss Buckley. Still from all that I can learn I believe that railroad people favor the reservation of the Kings River region & that therefore Mr Stow does also. He has managed S.P. & C P. railroad interests at the state legislature for many years & is thoroughly unreliable in anything that runs counter to r[illegible] interest. I guess however that you will find our congressmen under his
direction working in favor of the park & that the R.R. benefits hoped for will be legitimate. I hear our friend John P Irish is in Washington for what I dont know. Mr Thomas Magee wrote a good strong letter at my suggestion on the reservation of the K R region, which was published in the N.Y. Times lately Have you seen it? He has also written a shorter letter which I will send you as soon as I have time to look it over. Perhaps it may do good as an open letter in the Century
Ever Cordially Your friend
John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1891 Dec 5
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1891 Dec 5." (1891). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 132.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/132
Resource Identifier
muir07_0399-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0399
Collection Identifier
Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, click here to view the Holt-Atherton Special Collections policies.
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
