Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
February 3rd, 1893.
R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
My dear Muir:-
Your Interesting letter of the 13th of January went to my heart.
I am very sorry to hear of your children's illness, and unite with you in gratitude for their recovery. They are at [illegible] perilous age of little folks. Mine, at twelve and fourteen, seem to have struck a long period of good health, and are growing up like weeds.
I am glad to see that Californians seem at last to be aroused, if not organized, in favor of recession. It strikes me that the most important thing to do is to push the matter to a vote, even if you are defeated, because then we an say, in going to Congress hereafter, that the Legislature has had the matter presented to it and has refused to do the right thing; whereas, if it never came to a vote we could hardly say this.
I am urging upon Seoretary Noble, first, that he should not fail to get his report to the Senate printed so that we can have it as ammunition, and second, that he push for the new park on the King's River, which I think would go through with little effort. I have written [illegible] tO the Chairman of the
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R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.U. JONSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
.C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
House Committee On Public Lands, who was a member of the Committee when the Yosemite National Park was made.
Irish is writing vulgar letters to Mr. Gilder on the pretense that we are not fair in omitting to print Markham's white-washing report confessedly the work of a person who does not know anything about landscape gardening.
I am very much complimented by the attention you have given my book in your letter* and by the number of lines which you firtd worthy of comment. As ta the "candle-light* which you say I should not have introduced, bear in mind that candle-light there is only intended as a titte Of day. 1 do not mean to indicate that nothing but candles are used in the house Which is the scene of "The Winter Hour", as you will see later on where I speak of "soft lights that fell through opal glass". 1 have many letter from poets, and good many favorable notices of the book, but nothing Has pleased me more than your cordial approval.
I thank you very sincerely for this, and else for your oars In sending me the Yosemite materials, Of which I set keeping a file for future use so nothing is thrown away on me. t do not easily give up a cause in which I heve once
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R. W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R. U. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR
.C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
enlisted and I know how important it is to have ammunition at hand at the right time. So please keep me informed and let me know when the bill is introduced and what progress it is having, even if you only write me brief notes. You ought to have a delegation to go to Sacramento and urge the matter upon the Legislature.
Faithfully yours,
R. U. Johnson
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Location
…Union Square, New York
Date Original
1893 Feb 3
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1893 Feb 3." (1893). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 232.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/232
Resource Identifier
muir07_0782-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 07, Image 0782
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
