Creator
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Jamaica Plain, Mass..................April 28,...............1890.
My dear Muir:
I have a letter from Dr. WolcottAdescribing the recent meeting of the National Academy in Washington in which he says,- "Wolcott gave an account of his work on the forestry question and said that ninety per cent, at least of the recommendations of. your report were adopted and that there had been a complete change of feeling and information in regard to the whole forest question, even Senator Pettigrew had come out as violently for the recommendations of the report as he formerly was against them." He further stated that in a very few years United States officers would have charge of the forest lands as in the Yellowstone at present. Wolcott then Introduced Pinchot who gave an account of his own wonderful work. Nothing of what was said will be published I suppose." As I have already written Gibbs, this would be all right if anybody could believe what Wolcott says, but he is a good deal more of a sharp politician than he is a geologist, and I give no credence to anything which he, Hague or Pinchot say about forests, for I know they are all selfish in the matter and working for ends of their own. If Pettigrew has withdrawn his opposition it is because he has got what he wants and not from any enthusiasm about forest preservation.
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ARNOLD ARBORETUM.
I have had to postpone starting for a couple of days as Canby has to be in Wilmington Monday. I shall leave here, however, sunday night.Why in the world don't you come with us?
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]John Muir, Esq.
Martinez, Cal.
Location
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
Date Original
1899 Apr 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Recommended Citation
Sargent, Charles Sprague, "Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1899 Apr 28." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2383.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2383
Resource Identifier
muir10_0757-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 0757
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
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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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
