Creator
Paul Shoup
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
FORM 1706
STANDARD
5-07-120000
SOUTHERN PACIFIC COMPANY
PACIFIC SYSTEM
CHAS. S. FEE, PASSENGER TRAFFIO MANAGER
JAMES HORSBURGH, JR., GEN’L PASSENGER AGENT
R. A. DONALDSON, ASS’T GEN’L PASSENGER AGENT
H. R. JUDAH, ASS’T GEN’L PASSENGER AGENT
PAUL SHOUP, ASS’T GEN’L PASSENGER AGENT
NO. S
SAN FRANCISCO, CAL.,
June 28, 1907.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
My dear Mr Muir:
Referring to our conversation about a Mountain Book, would it be possible for you to indicate now at what time you will have the copy ready? The volume of course is left to you, our only suggestion being that we want we want as much as we can get
I speak of this book because I am sending out photographers to get the mountain views and as soon as they return, which will be in about six weeks, would like to be in a position to plan the book as to size, illustrations, etc.
With best wishes, I am
Yours truly,
[illegible]
03885
(Following rough draft of letter found on same sheet with that of Mr. Shoup to John Muir .dated June 28,1907)
[early July,] 1907.
Mr. P. Shoup,
My dear Sir;
How in the world can I tell when I will he able to indicate the time I'll have copy ready for"aMountain Book". Making a mountain book is a huge Sequoia job for me at best, even after the shape and size of the thing and everything about it has been definitely fixed, and the track cleared of all other work, a state of affairs far from present conditions. Now I have a Yosemite book on my hands that will take all summerat least, not to mention a lot of other smaller and bigger jobs stretching away into the dim hazy distance like your rails on the desert through mirages and dust storms. So you see any new Mountain book, like the Happy Land, is far, far away. But in the meantime, as far as I am concerned, the S.P. is welcome, without price, to the use of anything available in my writings. I have already in books, letters, and magazines described Shasta, Hetch Hetohy, Yosemite, Kings River Canyon, Tehipite, the mountains, glaciers, forests, etc. I suppose you seem hardly to know what to take. or what the holders of copyright would allow. A strange mental attitude for R.R. men accustomed to everything. I suppose you want a sort of guide to the most telling features of the mountains. Such a thing I may be able to do some day, but certainly not onrailroad time.
With best wishes,
Faithfully yours,
[JOHN MUIR]
03885
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1907 Jun 28
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Shoup, Paul, "Letter from Paul Shoup to John Muir, 1907 Jun 28." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3706.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3706
Resource Identifier
muir16_0803-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 0803
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
