Creator
William Kent
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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Jan 16th 1908
Mr John Muir
My dear Mr Muir
To us who can see and who know what is good, the deeding of what should belong to the people, to the people is not generosity, but an uncontrollable impulse.
The service you have preeminently rendered is in making some people see that the works of God are good in themselves and good for men.
The hideous heedless wickedness of trying to butcher those trees put me in a frame of mind where I wondered, how far a trustee ought to go to protect such a trust. I am sure the danger is passed now and hope I can forgive Jas Newlands and William Magee, who for a few dirty dollars would have deprived millions of their birthright.
I have done little as yet but
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I hope to do much more toward opening the eyes of those whose blindness is a sad incarceration.
My love to you and the hope that with more settled weather we may together visit one of the many memorials to your love of nature and your love of man.
Yours Truly
William Kent
I enclose a copy of the documents in the case. I resent the praise but the tender, and the deed (drawn by Pinchot) will interest you.
WK
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Location
Kentfield, Calif.
Date Original
1908 Jan 16
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Kent, William, "Letter from William Kent to John Muir, 1908 Jan 16." (1908). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5245.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5245
Resource Identifier
muir17_0087-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 17, Image 0087
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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
