Creator
[Robert Underwood Johnson]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
May 14th, 1890.
John Muir, Esq.,
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Mr. Muir:
Your article was much too long for our purposes and for our space; but by dint of omissions, chiefly of the detailed descriptions of the Water-Palls, (which will still be good by themselves but which were on too large a scale for the picture we wanted to present, and also by the omission of the historical part relating to the Yosemite, I have brought it within our limits. But why, oh why, did you not send with it a short description of the Tuolumne Canyon, Meadows, and Mt. Lye 11 so that we might advertise it as a description of the proposed limits of the New National Park, as well as a description of the Yosemite? It is an admirable article as it stands, and only lacks this completeness.
You spoke of sending this later, but as it has not come, I have telegraphed you to-day asking you for two thousand words on the subject, which will reach us in time to be of use. The King's River article can follow another time. What I now want to do is to make this article [illegible]of as much use as possible Ito the Vanderver bill to extend the limits, and it is to set forth the natural wonders within those limits that I have depended upon you.
I have not omitted from the MS as sent to the printer either
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Location
…Union Square, New York
Date Original
1890 May 14
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from [Robert Underwood Johnson] to John Muir, 1890 May 14." (1890). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 1907.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/1907
Resource Identifier
muir06_0481-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 06, Image 0481
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
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Owning Institution
Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific Library. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Pages
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
