Creator
John Muir
Recipient
R[ichard] A. Ballinger
Transcription
[Nov 15, 1909?]My dear Mr Ballinger: 12-13-3-AMany thanks for your kind letter of Nov. 3d. Making the acquaintance of the President & yourself under happiest auspices is the best gift of this eventful year.I guess from scraps here & there in the press, especially in Colliers that P. seems bent on stirring up barren strife to blot & becloud the good work he has hitherto done. Whom the gods wish to destroy they first make mad.The Sierra Club is getting out another pamphlet for the Hetch Hetchy fight we expect in the coming Congress. The scheme for the invasion of Yosemite Park is all bad, founded on cunningly devised fables & honeycombed throughout with personal ambitions & dry rot politics. San Francisco citizens want pure water, & are looking as they should to the snowy Sierra: but few know or care about the so called Hetch Hetchy scheme. All civilized nations instead of spoiling their parks or diminishing their size or numbers are increasing them & appreciating their usefulness more & more fully as places of rest & recreation & spiritual growth. And if you Mr Secretary should be able to see your way to revoke the destructive Garfield grant & obtain legislation to put an end to all such thief & robber schemes all good citizens & lovers of God's handiwork here & everywhere will rise up & call you Blessed.With sincere respectI am faithfully yoursJohn MuirHon. R. A. BallingerSecretary of the InteriorWashington, D.C.
Location
[Martinez, Calif.]
Circa Date
[1909 Nov 15]
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to R[ichard] A. Ballinger, [1909 Nov 15]." (1909). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5926.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5926
Resource Identifier
muir18_0893-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 18, Image 0893
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
National Archives. 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
