Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
79 Martinez, Aug. 28,/02
My dear Johnson. I'm home from the mountains & have just finished correction of proof of the Colorado Canon, which with this I'll mail today. I have received the company check for $190. but I meant 250 besides the cost of trip. so I want $60 more. (Sent - R. U. T.) After spending 10 days with the Sierra Club in Kings Canon region, I crossed over to the Giant Forest of Kaweah & thence made a long interesting trip to the grand canon of the Kern tracing it from the lakes to its head. & thence to the top of Mt Whitney. a magnificent trip through the highest of the high Sierra which is being made by greater & greater numbers of mountain lovers every year & should I think be described in the
magazine & made a chapter of the proposed Yosemite book. Keith was with me & offers to illustrate it, & I have lots of good photos made by Dr Merriam & others of my party. I mean to try to write this as soon as I can. I expect the Tullys at our house next Sunday. As to Yosemite recession I'll do what I can though I find it hard to stir effective interest in it. Many thanks for your poems, I'll have a good time reading them. What a worker you are. I wish you had been with us this summer You would have had a glorious exhilarating reviving time.
Ever faithfully yours
John Muir
Glad you like the canon article. It is the hardest piece of word work I ever tackled.
[28 AUG. 1902]
My dr Johnson
Im home from the mtns. & have just finished correction of proof of the Col Can wh Ill mail today with this. I found the Cos chk for $190, but I meant 250 besides the cost of trip. so I want 60 more [illegible] After spending 10 days with the Sierra Club in Kings canon I crossed over to the Giant Forest of the Kamah Mt Whitney & thence made a long interesting trip to the Kern Can tracing it from the lakes to the head then to the top of Mt Whitney. This is a grand [illegible] trip thru the highest of the high Sierra is having made by greater & greater nos every yr & would I think make a good article for the maga & chap for the Yo book Keith was with me & offers to illustrate it. besides I have lots of good photos
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made by Dr Merriam [illegible] & others of my party. I expect the Tullys at our house next Sunday. Ill do what I can for recession tho I find it hard to stir up effective interest on it. Many thanks for your poems. Haven't read them yet. What a worker you are. I wish you had been with me this summer You would have had a glorious reviving exhilarating time.
Ever faithfully
yrs J. M.
Glad you like the Can article It is the hardest piece of word work I ever tackled.
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1902 Aug 28
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1902 Aug 28." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4709.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4709
Resource Identifier
muir12_0546-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0546
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
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
