Creator
[Bailey] Millard
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
May 9, 1902.
My dear Mr. Muir:
This note is to break gently to you the serious fact that you have been put into my book of verse, "Songs of the Press." Please to bear up bravely, my dear friend, and read "Muir of the Mountains" without poling or trembling. It was, you know, inevitable. Nobody could have written what you have written without calling down something of that sort. I send you the book to-day.
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Kindly pass lightly and casually over the first part of the book, the "Songs of the Press," and read with fortitude the "Other Adventures in Verse," which is the [heart=work?]. The "Press" stuff is [verse?] jingle, addressed to the people who are marching to "rag=time" music and whose dominant singing note is [fond?] in the [Corn?] [diacritic]" [song?]. I th[illegible] the stuff, which is what Carlyle would call "rocking= verse rhyme," would popularlize the book. And, you know, even Lowell was not above that sort of thing. In the unlikely event of your wanting another copy you may have it. With kind wishes to you and Mrs. Muir, I remain. Yours faithfully
Millard
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Location
San Francisco
Date Original
1902 May 9
Source
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Millard, Bailey, "Letter from [Bailey] Millard to John Muir, 1902 May 9." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4667.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4667
Resource Identifier
muir12_0410-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0410
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
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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
