Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Mrs. [Jeanne] Carr
Transcription
Martinez Jan. 12,88
Dear Mrs. Carr
I can appreciate your difficulty in getting under way with that article. So many diverse winds of doctrine. I saw from your first M.S. that you had difficulty in getting launched.
You were evidently trying to do too much. No matter about the jogs and lifts of the Cordilleras and the resulting influence on human whims and purses etc. Just pitch in and paint your pictures whatever you see that interests you. The changes if any that may be desired may easily be made. If you look for and listen for more instructions you will write nothing freely
"[Page 2]
Just pitch in and finish in whatever way now seems best in the light you have, remembering always that it is Picturesque California you are sketching and not philosophy of oranges and town lots south of the new Mason and Dixon Line. Look at the landscapes as the sun looks at them. "
"[Page 3]
Fine preaching isn’t it? Your article will be first rate I have no doubt, though the introduction will have to be cut off mostly. It reads too much like the preface of some Professors big book strike right out with the midst of your pictures and let the boundaries take care of themselves. Remember me to the Doctor. Ever yrs cordially J Muir Have not yet seen your last M.S.S."
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1888 Jan 12
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 13 cm.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "1888 Jan 12 JM to Mrs Carr p1" (1888). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 4843.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/4843
Resource Identifier
muir00_089-let
File Identifier
MSS 301 Shone
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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
3 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
