Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Walter H. Page
Transcription
Martinez, California, Apr 16, 1897.
Dear Sir,
I sent off today an article to Harpers Weekly on parks & reservations & now I'm going to see what I can do for the Atlantic. I may succeed in hammering & welding some ideas into shape for you but it will take a long time. You speak of forests lending themselves to this article business, but I never found anything lend itself to literature in my hands. When I write I find it hard unnatural work, & I have to go out for "articles" compel them to come in like a cowboy dragging steers with a rope. I have already got a tail - not tale - for a brushy article but the body & head are still in the Wilderness.
Ever Yours
John Muir
Walter H. Page Esq./
W H P
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1897 Apr 16
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Walter H. Page, 1897 Apr 16." (1897). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2231.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2231
Resource Identifier
muir09_0843-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0843
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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
