Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
Martinez June 10/06
Dear Mr Johnson
I'm very glad to hear from you again. Mr Gilder told me you were managing the Vesuvius lava floods & thunders & in the midst of all this hard exciting nerve trying work was seeking tidings of me & mine
We are all pretty well Helen who has been in Arizona nearly a year hopes to get back home in the fall about as sound & well as ever, all the pain gone from the sick lung at last. Wanda is with her but is coming home soon to be married. Then I ll go back to Adamana for the summer to care for Helen & study Sigellaria Lepidodendron etc in the auld lang syne enchanted forests--
The earthquake did us but little harm shook down chimneys etc, & some brick buildings in Martinez But San Francisco Heavens what desolation!! For strength & beauty only cinder & ashes I was in Arizona at the time. Only Wanda was at home. Ten of thousands are still coming from evereywhere to the terrible show.
I haven't written anything but have been hard at work on the wonderful forests.--A bill is now before Congress making the first discovered forests 144 square miles in area a National Park. Hope it will pass.
The resolution accepting Yosemite passed the house under suspension of the rules more than a week ago & we hope no great opposition will be encountered in the Senate. Ive been watching closely & doing all I could in every way, Cannon at last becoming quite friendly Kittrige in the Senate to our surprise has been giving us a good deal of trouble but we hope to hear any day that the end of
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the long confounded battle has been reached in victory
I mean to try to write something about the stone trees this fall if all goes well
Watch the Yosemite resolution--Remeber me to Mrs Johnson & the children & Gilders--
Faithfully
John Muir
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Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Circa Date
[19]06 Jun 10
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, [19]06 Jun 10." (1906). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3543.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3543
Resource Identifier
muir16_0281-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0281
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
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. 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
