Creator
Lyman Abbott
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
E. The Outlook Company
287 Fourth Avenue
New York
December 7, 1904.
My dear Mr. Muir:
The Outlook publishes in the early summer of each year what we call a Recreation Number, the object of it being to inspire our readers to out-of-door life, and to give them some guidance and instruction how to get that out-of-door life in the best way and with the best advantage. I read your "Our National Parks" last spring, in connection with a call - it was not enough to be entitled a visit - at the Yosemite Valley. It made me long for the privilege which you offered Ralph Waldo Emerson and he declined, but which I fear I shall never have, of spending at least a few hours in the woods with you. I should want it to be weeks.
That is impossible; but I hope it may not be impossible for you to comply with the request of this note, and
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tell our readers something about experiences in the woods. The article might take any form you like - an account of some special experience of your own, a description of some special locality, or an interpretation of any phase of nature, the mountains, the forest, the lake, or the animal creation, for it seems to me - I hope you will pardon my saying this - that you are equally intimate and equally on friendly terms with them all. What took hold of me in your writing was the fact that you pierced behind the veil, and saw yourself, and enabled me to see, something of that infinite, beautiful, divine life of which more and more it seems to me all nature is but the perpetually variable and ever-new expression.
To come to business details, which are necessary, we should like the article to be anywhere from twenty-five hundred to four thousand words in length, as you might prefer, and should send you on receipt of the
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manuscript our cheque for one hundred dollars. If you could furnish or put us in the way of getting any photographs which would fittingly accompany the letter press, we should be very glad.
Yours sincerely,
[illegible]
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez,
California.
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Location
New York
Date Original
1904 Dec 07
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Abbott, Lyman, "Letter from Lyman Abbott to John Muir, 1904 Dec 7." (1904). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 2911.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/2911
Resource Identifier
muir14_0686-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 14, Image 0686
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
