Creator
John Muir
Recipient
George A. Plimpton
Transcription
SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject toThe terms on back here of. Which agreed to
Dec. 9, 1913.
To George A. Plimpton,
70 Fifth Are., New York City.
N. Y.
Regret notice of dinner to be given in honor of Robert Underwood Johnson came too late for mail. In all the battles fought for the preservation and right use of our forests and parks he was always in the front,untirable undiscourageable. No matter what other burdens, civic, literary, editorial etc. were piled upon him he was always ready and able for the heaviest park and forest work. I first met him in thesummer of eighteen eighty-nine, when I took him to Yosemite Valley andthe head fountains of the Merced and Tuolumne rivers, and it was at acamp fire on the Tuolumne Meadows in the heart of the High Sierra that he invented the famous Yosemite national Park which next year was established by Act of Congress. In these mad, God-forgetting, pro-gressive davs our noblest resources of uplifting beauty are being05627
"SEND the following NIGHT LETTER subject tothe terms on back hereof, which are hereby agreed to
To (George A. Plimpton) (2)
ruthlessly destroyed, the need of sane public service founded oneternal righteousness seems greater than ever. All honor to Robert Underwood Johnson. Long may he live to do just as he is now doing, helping God as best he can in every good cause. so prays
John Muir.05627"
Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1913 Dec 9
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to George A. Plimpton, 1913 Dec 9." (1913). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4182.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4182
Resource Identifier
muir21_1054-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 21, Image 1054
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
