Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Henry Fairfield] Osborn
Transcription
[illegible]Martinez, .July 15, 1913
Dear Friend Osborn
I had no thought of your leaving your own great work and manyfold duties to go before the House Committee on the everlasting HetchHetchy fight, but only to write to members of Congress you might know,especially to President Wilson a Princeton man. This is the 23rd ^fyear of almost continual battle for preservation of Yosemite NationalPark, sadly interrupting my natural work. Our enemies now seem to behaving most everything their own wicked way working beneath obscuring tariff and bank clouds, spending millions of the peoples money forselfish ends. Think of three or four ambitious shifty traders politicians calling themselves "The City of San Francisco" bargaining with the United States for half of the Yosemite Park like Yankee horse traders, as if the grandest of all our mountain playgrounds full of God's best gifts, the joy and admiration of the world,were of no more account than any of the long list of tinker tariff articles.
Where are yon going this summer? Wish I could go with you. The pleasure of my long lovely Garrison-Hudson Castle Rock days grows only the clearer and dearer as the years flow by
My love to you, dear friend, and to all who love you
Ever gratefully affectionately
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1913 Jul 15
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Henry Fairfield] Osborn, 1913 Jul 15." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4038.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4038
Resource Identifier
muir21_0584-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 0584
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
