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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. 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
