Creator
John Muir
Recipient
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Transcription
Martinez
Jan. 13, 1890
Dear Mr Johnson,
That is a pretty big block of mountains you have indicated for our article. I fear the description will seem lean & scrawny, however I will gladly do the best I can with it hoping to call attention to its value as our grand "Central Park" in the Sierra. There will be no lack of sketches or photographs for illustrations. Keith has some Tuolumne Canon sketches & some of mine can be fixed up perhaps, photographs of the Big Meadows & the adjacent can be had, but of the interesting region about the head of the north fork of the San Joaquin only my poor pencil sketches are available as far as I know.
2
I'm sorry to hear of your family sorrow & trust the new year will deal gently with you. I have already commenced to write out some note sfor this Yosemite. A skeleton however bare of the kind of desription of the valley you want would be [illegible], though to write to order & measure I am about the worst hand you could find. I shall hope however that the luxurience of the illustrations will hide the leanness of the text.
Cordially yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1890 Jan 13
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson, 1890 Jan 13." (1890). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1877.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1877
Resource Identifier
muir06_0333-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0333
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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, see http://www.pacific.edu/Library/Find/Holt-Atherton-Special-Collections/Fees-and-Forms-.html
Owning Institution
American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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
