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.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Mar 6." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2208.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2208
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 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
