Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles A.] Keeler
Transcription
Martinez, Sep. 19/07
Dear Mr Keeler,
As no doubt you have seen by the newspapers, Mr Phelan & the S.F. Supervisors are trying to get the use of Hetch Hetchy Valley for a reservoir for city water supply. Their application to the Secretary should be denied because Hetch Hetchy is a wonderful counterpart of Yosemite with the same grand walls similiar in form & sculpture, with falls gardens groves meadows etc To dam it would be as destructive & deplorable an its effects on the Park as damming Yosemite itself. For not only would it be rendered utterly unaccessible but the way up the Canon of the Park to the grand central camp ground of Tuolumne would be blocked The great National park should be kept free in pure wildness forever.
Please write to Secretary Garfield at
Washington if you are likeminded on the subject & as soon as possible as the case is to be decided perhaps within less than a month. All sorts of untrue statements are being made by the promoters If you can spare the time to see Mr Colby or Prof Le Conte. You could get particulars
With kindest regards to you Charlie & your darlings & the Bunnells & Symonds I am
Faithfully yours
John Muir
Come & see us these fine days
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1907 Sep 19
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Charles A.] Keeler, 1907 Sep 19." (1907). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 3773.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/3773
Resource Identifier
muir16_1037-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 16, Image 1037
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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 Huntington Library, Muir Family Papers, HM 57349-57497. 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
