Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Warren] Olney
Transcription
Mr Warren Olney, Sen. (Attorney at law)
101 Sansome St., San Francisco.
Dear Mr Olney
I have read your "Sixty Years" & wished it far longer. Why not fill up this outline sketch into the book it so vividly & strikingly suggests, taking pains to give it literary & artistic form? In talks with you years ago I was convinced that you could write such a book, & that in the hands of a good publisher it would be in every way successful, a great satisfaction to yourself, family & friends, & to thousands of readers who never heard of you. Go ahead! An hour a day of dogged work for a year or two would do it. Enterprizing writers, with less than half your taste & skill & less than a tenth part of your material, have made readable successful
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books of this sort because there is a right natural hungry call for them now that the rich picturesque foundational pioneer days of our great country the greatest in the world with all its pathos & romance is passing into dim foggy history. Up & at it. The letter you wrote me a month or two ago on the Sequoia Parks I sent with a few words of my own to Johnson, & he in turn forwarded them direct to the President, who replied in a personal letter which was in every way encouraging to the tree lovers & trees, & discouraging to their enemies.
Faithfully yours
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 16.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Warren] Olney, [ca. 1902 Nov.] ." (1902). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4788.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4788
Resource Identifier
muir12_0838-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 12, Image 0838
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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.
Copyright Holder
Muir-Hanna Trust
Copyright Date
1984
Pages
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
