Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
Martinez, March 27, 1899
My dear Johnson
We have won the fight against forest enemies The Sheepmen are nowhere, I'll send you a copy of Hermanns reply to a telegram Olney & I sent him. Ive spent most of the winter on forest protection at least Ive done little besides writing about it. For the first time we are to have a lot of guards in the Sierra Reservation with orders to keep out sheep etc & two troops of Cavalry have been ordered to the National Parks as usual inspite of the miserable Manilla war.
If only a few soldiers were mixed with the civil guards I think sheepdays would be over in California forests. Public opinion on our side is certainly growing & becoming more active-while thieves are less hopeful-getting the resolutions under Civil service rules will be a grand gain.
I have just been writing to Gilder about the biography business. I have not done a thing as far as actual work on it-& it still seems far off. I have not much that is striking to tell in my smooth happy wild life excepting what I have seen & since nobody would walk with me it must be hard to make my studies readable to most book people.1 Still I may try it sometime after this forest stuff is off my hands
Then I have a Yosemite book to write for you & a glacial Article. I would like to write the Rainier Park as you suggest in your [letter] but I cant promise just now I must [try to get] a lot of half done work finished.
Ever yours
John Muir
1JM holograph note insterted later at this point "Twice I tryed to coax friends into a fine Canon & both balked because forsooth a stone & bush were in the way."
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899 Mar 27
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Mar 27." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2369.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2369
Resource Identifier
muir10_0713-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0713
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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
