Creator
Cha[rle]s F. Lummis
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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"I always read it, for I am heartily in sympathy with so many of the things for which it works."—PRESIDENT ROOSRVELT.
FORMERLY "THE LAND OF SUNSHINE"
THE NATION BACK OF US, THE WORLD IN FRONT.
OUT WEST
A MAGAZINE OF
THE OLD PACIFIC AND THE NEW
EDITED BY CHAS. F. LUMMIS
"A magazine wholly unlike any other published anywhere...The best there is in periodical literature on the Pacific Coast...Ability and individuality powerful enough and original enough to give distinction to any periodical...A voice listened to with respect and interest in all parts of the country." —The Dial.
Its lively independence and its genuine learning...A steady evenness if worth and interest."— The Nation.
Editor's Office
Los Angeles. Cal....Apl...23rd...1902.
Dear John Muir:--
What is this? Do 1 understand that you are preparing to trespass on my private preserves without leave or license? I hear from a disinterested third party that you plan to lead your Sierra Club into the Grand Cannon, that general neck of the woods. I suppose if you really want to go, I shall have to let you, although it is a rather dangerous experiment to allow you to enter into fragile scenery like that of the Cannon, where there are no glaciers to sleep on and where yon cannot climb up and down the aides everywhere you
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like. This same gentleman invites me to go in the crowd, and I am slightly tempted to think I ought to go to keep an eye on you all. The only thing that daunts me is the fact that there will be a crowd; but the Canon is a very good and convenient place for disposing of superfluous companions; and if there were a reasonable probability of having a fair whack at you and a few others that I should care to be with, and of being able to shin up a tree away from the rest, or drop the most inevitable of them over the rim, I should be a good deal minded to try to shape things to go. Let me know a little of what you plan to do; just about what time you expect to spend there, and whether you intend to go anywhere else.
I wish you could get down here fo before that time and see us; or at least start a little ahead of the excursion and stop over here and
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go on with us, in which case I should be pretty certain to run out at least for part of the time.
Turbese sends her love to all your house.
Hastily but always sincerely yours,
Chas. F. Lummis
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Location
Los Angeles
Date Original
1902 Apr 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Lummis, Charles F., "Letter from Cha[rle]s F. Lummis to John Muir, 1902 Apr 23." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4656.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4656
Resource Identifier
muir12_0375-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0375
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
