Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
68
[in margin: A[illegible] F.H.S.]
Martinez, Cal Nov. 16, 1899.
My dear Johnson
I enclose a note from Dr Jordan, to which I replied that he was welcome to the part of the story referred to as far as I was concerned, but how much the Century Co, the owners of the copyright would grant I didn't know.
Thanks for your suggestion about the story book. If I could write dog fish crow Mormon & Aurora stories in a "never failing never freezing stream" as fast as your Editors call for them no doubt Id soon have a book a large lot of books whether they would in accordance with your
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idea be "nature & life in about equal propositions" I dont know. I rather guess they would be all nature - animated nature.
Sure enough as you say "there is a good deal of Knack about making a book". (& many a hard Knock) "and it is well to strike several notes" in this Muiring Burroughsing broad browsing business to make it striking. Several notes forsooth with a vengence.
Chapter
I An Adventure with a dog & a Glacier.
II A riverful of shining fish.
III A shifting Aurora.
IV A cold night on Shasta
V A never freezing stream, or an adventure with a woolen mill & a Mormon
By the author of the Muir Glacier. You seem to have forgotten the glossy raven that tried to eat the author on
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the perilous edge of his own glacier P.M. July 15th, 1890. This story might make an effective left wing for the book under the title, "An Adventure with a crow & a glacier" balancing true with the dog story.
Well, I have a lot of notes & I'll see what can be done. In the meantime I'm trying to complete the forest book.
We had a very pleasant call from the Thompsons. The deer & bear like the jungle stories are capital for young folk. I must congratulate you on the last Century It is easily the best of all the illustrated magazines this month.
Good luck to you - good times good books goodbye
Ever Yours Truly
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1899 Nov 16
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1899 Nov 16." (1899). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2471.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2471
Resource Identifier
muir10_1083-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 10, Image 1083
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
