Creator
[John Muir]
Recipient
C. M. Bellshaw
Transcription
(75)
Hon. C. M. Billshaw
Capitol, Sacramento
My dear Senator:
I most hearitly thank & congratulate you on the passage of the Yo recession bill [done?] for Cal & the world for decent Yo management. Now I think assured by Recession wh under your able leadership is trumphantly consummated your name imbedded in the great Sierra Valley is immoralized & wh will be preserved in history & your name with it long after a thousand other hotly debated seemingly more imporant have passed away like a dream [but?] have been utterly forgotten -
09947
Martinez, Cal. Jan. 28/05.
Mr. C. O. Wayland,
The Yo Nat Park now heart-whole & complete with an area of about 1500 sq m in many ways unrivalled & of the most songful rivers in the world flow through it dotted with lakes 2.5 gls flowing & grinding on the high snowy mtns - innumerable silky lawns & the noblest & most [illegible] coniferous forests in the [illegible] granite cliffs & waterfalls.
North Cal in the United States or the world begin to know grandeur you must go & see it next summer. It is already famous but its fame will grow & in saving to the world you have immortalized yourself.
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Circa Date
[1905 Feb 28]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 13.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from [John Muir] to C. M. Bellshaw, [1905 Feb 28]." (1905). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3275.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3275
Resource Identifier
muir15_0270-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 15, Image 0270
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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.
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
