Creator
Walter H. Page
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
Walter H. Page
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
34 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK
Nov. 8th, 1902.
My dear Mr. Muir:-
I have not written to you in [illegible] to your most excellent and good letter of some months ago only because a man who publishes books and gets out magazines finish life disgustingly busy. Then I had another reason for silence for a little while. I had a sneaking hope that this winter I might get out to California, for to accept your kind invitation to go to see you has been one of the things that Mrs. [illegible] and I have carried in our minds since the old [illegible] days as the first step towards the celestial state. Then, too, I am going to talk about books -- the books that you are going to give us after you get off those that you are already [illegible] to for other people. My idea, you see, is to get your autobiography at [illegible] and and to get the biggest books you have besides that, and then, as you begin to get old in days far in the future, it will be our house that will issue your complete works in a [illegible] edition---books that will stand as long as the big trees that you have written about and will outlast the glaciers among the mountains.
Believe me,
Sincerely yours,
[illegible]
John Muir, Esq,
Martinez,
California.
03093
Location
New York
Date Original
1902 Nov 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Page, Walter H., "Letter from Walter H. Page to John Muir, 1902 Nov 8." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4769.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4769
Resource Identifier
muir12_0770-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0770
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
