Creator
Theodore Roosevelt
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
THE WHITE HOUSE
WASHINGTON
Oyster Bay, N.Y.,
September 16, 1907.
My dear Mr. Muir:
I gather that Garfield and Pinchot are rather favorable to the Hetch Hetchy plan, but not definitely so. I have sent them your letter with a request for a report upon it. I will do everything in my power to protect not only the Yosemite, which we have already protected, but other similar great natural beauties of this country; but you must remember that it is out of the question permanently to protect them unless we have a certain degree of friendliness toward them on the part of the people of the State in which they are situated; and if they are used so as to interfere with the permanent material development Of the State instead of helping the permanent material development, the result will be bad. I would not have any difficulty
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at all if, as you say, nine-tenths of the citizens took ground against the Hetch Hetchy project; but so far everyone [illegible] has bean for it and I have been in the disagreeable position of seeming to interfere with the development of the State for the sake of keeping a valley, which apparently hardly anyone wanted to have kept, under national control.
I wish 1 could see you in person; and how I do wishI were again with you camping out under those great sequoias, or in the snow under the silver firs.
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, California.
Location
Oyster Bay, N. Y.
Date Original
1907 Sep 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 22.5 x 36.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Roosevelt, Theodore, "Letter from Theodore Roosevelt to John Muir, 1907 Sep 16." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3766.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3766
Resource Identifier
muir16_1009-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 1009
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
