Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
42
Martinez, Cal. June 18 / 95
My dear Mr Johnson,
I think that all the talk of employing a reputable landscape gardener to lay out & manage the floor of Yosemite was intended to secure the cooperation of the Sierra Club in securing appropriations for the next two years. I never believed that the Yo. Commissioners really meant to turn over a new leaf in the management. California does not truly care for Yosemite for itself and here lies the difficulty.
Left in care of the Century these city Dog Days you are in a hard & hot place & I devoutly pity you. Do care for yourself. Make many short excursions to Sargents Mrs Fields sea-washed ice-fashioned bluffs, Hudson Highlands, Catskills etc to save your life. I should deliberately choose a Gettysburg or Pitsburgh Landing battle against a smothering New York summer in the Century editorial rooms. Dont die. Dont suicide. Do care for yourself.
Bancroft Library
[in margin: Have been trying the days [Glory?]]
I have another years work to do on the coast of Alaska at Yakatat Bay, Bristol Bay, & Cook's Inlet, but I shall not I fear be able to do this the coming summer. I rather think that under the circumstances I shall go see the improved condition of the Yosemite National Park & explore in detail the Tuolumne Canon for my coming Yosemite guidebook. Then I shall think of you, & your important eyeglasses, & the grand earthquake taluses.
If you should go to Sargents (as you had better) tell them that the meeting & blending of the sunset purple & rhododendron purple on their pond & the wide cool flowing verandah & the charming company remain with me & shall remain always.
Ever cordially yrs
John Muir
Bancroft library
Location
Martinez [Calif]
Date Original
1895 Jun 18
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Jun 18." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3108.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3108
Resource Identifier
muir08_1047-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 1047
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
