Creator
John Muir
Recipient
John Burroughs
Transcription
IllegibleMartinez Nov. 26/09Dear John Burroughs,I have read your Yosemite Ms. and can make nothing of it, You Raw so little of the Valley I think you had better say little or nothing on its origin. Leave it all out is my advice. It can do no good to yourself or others to try to tell what you have had no chance to know. Compare this haphazard "brazen ignorance With the careful loving life-logg bird studies that made you famous. You must he growing daft. You say," Come study the geology of the Catskills--those Devonian rocks". Could I do it in a day as you did Yosemite, I would come flying.Remember me to the Doctor and Harriet.Ever faithfully your friend and admirer,John Muir,Your impressions of the Valley as Scenery everybody Will enjoy reading without any blurring origin stuff,Illegible
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1909 Nov 26
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to John Burroughs, 1909 Nov 26." (1909). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 5933.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/5933
Resource Identifier
muir18_0919-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 18, Image 0919
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
