Creator
F. B[ailey] Millard
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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[letterhead]
Friday.
Dear Mr. Muir:
I suppose you received the message sent in the Martinez correspondent of the "Examiner". To send such a message in such an abrupt business way is as embarrassing as it is to receive it; that I didn't like to use the same old picture of you that has been used so often and which I first printed when I was city editor of the Call, years ago. The Markham review came and
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it more than meets my demands upon the po[illegible]t for "eloquence". I asked him to be as eloquent as he could and he has used large [illegible]ds of language, dipping his pen into all the colors of the Yellowstone, so vividly described by you in the [illegible]. It is a fine tribute of one forceful, natural [illegible] to [illegible]. So prepare your deepest and most spontaneous blushes for a week from Sunday. Keith's "[illegible] of the Merced" has just been exposed to public view here in the E[illegible]porium, in rather
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a bad light - too garish for the rather s[illegible]ber subject, as trea[illegible]d by him. But the pure poetry of his mountain peaks is something to rave over. Still you would know best how much [reason?] a person should [lose?] while viewing it. Until you have seen the picture, however, and I have heard from you on the subject, I shall continue to rave. I sent Keith a little cry of delight over the painting to-day, and don't yet feel ashamed of my rhapsody.
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I hope you liked the Markham book. You didn't say that you received it. My best friend, Charles Ferguson, [illegible] of "the Religion of Democracy," who preaches the doctrine of out-of-doors, wrote me the other day of the Markham book, saying "It will do much to abate the world - nuisance of intellectual cleverness and moral meanness." So good this seemed to me that I quote it for you. In truth it seems to the subscriber that intellectual cleverness, as we see it in print and speech to-day is a very nuisance, needing sorely to be abated. Do you know what I like best in "National Parks?" Yellowstone [illegible], that fine touch on the sugar pine, the mountain fires and the meeting with Emerson.
Yours as ever,
F. B. Millard.
Location
San Francisco
Circa Date
[1902 Jan]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Millard, F. Bailey, "Letter from F. B[ailey] Millard to John Muir, [ca. 1902 Jan ?]." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4605.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4605
Resource Identifier
muir12_0179-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0179
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
Copyright status unknown
Copyright Statement
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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.
Pages
4 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
