Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
[in circle: 75] See last p. Credit to [Lahura?] for originating the Yosemite scheme and pushing it through [1901]
Martinez, Dec. 24, 1901
My dear Johnson.
I've been brooding over that Colorado Canyon article It is a grand subject but my ignorance is distressing I spent a day or two on its rim at the deepest portion & where the views were probably the most telling & marvellous of all; & I spent a day going down to the bottom of it Going by way of Flagstaff by stage. & spending a day on the interesting San Francisco mountains. Now the travel is all by rail from Williams to within 8 or 10 miles of the canon which is reached by stage some 16 or 18 miles
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down the river from the point I visited. I suppose I should go over this new road & see the views from the new points though I guess they are not so grand Then again I hate to lose the time that would be required for work mostly of a tourist kind. As to your artist How am I going to work with him without ever seeing him or hearing from him I suppose you would just put in his best pictures whether reffered to in the text or not. I hardly see how I could use Mr. Robinson's sketch
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in a separate article for the Yosemite book at present - though some of it might possibly be useful in extensions of the Kings River Chapter As to the Auto business I haven't written a word of it or suggested the thing to any publishers [How?] so much has come to be said of it is to me a mystery I mean to write the Yosemite book first & the Alaska trip & perhaps a 3d vol on shrubs & trees before touching the me book - Sorry to hear of the brilliant King's illness. I mean to write a short letter to the President on forest matters. No hope in sight for Yosemite recession
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the Governor is not likely to favor it in the least.
By the way I hope to find a place for the history of the Yosemite Park perhaps in this Yosemite book. I have always given you the credit for originating the grand scheme & pushing it through though many persist in ascribing the honor to me.
And now Happy New Year to you & your family & Gilders & Buells with all my heart.
Ever Your friend
John Muir
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1901 Dec 24
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1901 Dec 24." (1901). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4518.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4518
Resource Identifier
muir11_1053-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 11, Image 1053
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 https://www.pacific.edu/university-libraries/find/holt-atherton-special-collections/fees-and-forms-.html
Owning Institution
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
