Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Charles F.] Lummis
Transcription
Martinez, Feb. 25
My dear Lummis
Your grand trumpet blast [illegible] this Calaveras business has I fancy made every Sequoia on the Sierra wave & tingle. Get an editorial in the same key into Your Magazine & verily these northern groves & all the other will be saved. I'm doing my part as well as I can. It is a fine thing after so many years of deadly apathy to see so much lively interest taken in these noblest of Gods trees, & I fondly hope awakening public opinionm,will result in adding these two Northern Groves to the Tahoe or Yosemite National Park & finally
in the reservation of all the forest lands left in the possession of the Government & the [illegible]tion & adoption of a rational forest management. Every year for the last 25 years more Sequoias have been felled, blasted, & sawed into lumber on the Fresno, Kings, Kaweah, & Tule rivers than are contained in the Calaveras Grove perhaps twice as many with scarce a whimper from the public. But the world moves, & better late than never.
With best wishes & Thanks for you thundering letter I am very truly Yours
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Circa Date
[190] Feb 25
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Charles F.] Lummis, [ca.1900] Feb 25 ." (1900). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4242.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4242
Resource Identifier
muir11_0115-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 0115
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
Private collection of Ralph Grunauer, Jr. . 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
