Creator

John Muir

Creator

John Muir

Recipient

[Robert Underwood] Johnson

Transcription

57

Martinez, March, 6, 1897

After looking carefully over the ground I found not the slightest chance for Yosemite so late in the session after all the careless members had traded their votes. So we must just wait & we will know better how to work the thing next time.
But Ye Gods! What's to be done with the crazy Senate? Voting all on the holy Sabbath day for old-fashioned diabolical distribution of forests & voting unanimously in the face of that admirable report of the Academy Commission. These Western Senators are a bad lot, but we'll win at last But how long O Lord how long, must destruction go on.

Ever faithfully Yours

John Muir

[in margin: I had a long forest talk with Judge McKenna I think he is all right but may not be our next Sec.]

Location

Martinez [Calif.]

Date Original

1897 Mar 6

Source

Original letter dimensions unknown.

Resource Identifier

muir09_0775-let.tif

File Identifier

Reel 09, Image 0775

Collection Identifier

Online finding aid for the microform version of the John Muir Correspondence http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt0w1031nc

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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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

1 page

Keywords

Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters

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