Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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Private
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March 15 1895
Dear Muir:
Your second article is admirably done, and we will try to get it in during the summer, as soon as we can get the rest of the pictures made. Thanks loud and deep.
You have doubtless seen that poor Tesla has been burned out. His laboratory and all it contained is in ashes--all
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his records notes, plans, historical [instruments?], his great inventions, which are to be described in the April Century by the way. It is a great public calamity. However, he has friends with money and if his health keeps good he can in time reproduce everything, improved.
I now wish to write you very privately to say that I am talking with a friend of his about a possible Alaska trip in July or August. The friend has an N. P. private car and is a gentleman. He thinks that it would be a good thing to take Tesla off about that time (he can't go earlier as he must go to Europe) and when I spoke of Alaska and your cordial invitation to Tesla he said he thought that would be just the thing. It is of course a far cry to July, but can you
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go then if the party including the Johnsons & Tesla should come? Alaska without Muir would be Hamlet without the Dane. If so, which would be the better month?
Those glacier descriptions--the dawn and the starlight scenes--are as good writing as you have ever done and will get into the readers! I'll use them as bait on Tesla's friends.
My best remembrances to Mrs. Muir. This letter is not private from her but from others.
Faithfully yours
R. U. Johnson
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Location
New York
Date Original
1895 Mar 15
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20.5 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1895 Mar 15." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3067.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3067
Resource Identifier
muir08_0883-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0883
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
