Creator
Charles Scribner
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PUBLISHERS153-157 FIFTH AVENUEBETWEEN 2IST AND 22ND STREETSNEW-YORK June 1,1911.My dear Mr. Muir:I intended to write yesterday about the manuscript but could not get around to it. My morning of Decoration Day was given to it and it added very much to the pleasure of the holiday. We should be delighted to publish it for you and if properly issued with an inviting title, I should think it would prove a decided success. Some such title as "My Boyhood on the Frontier" would be a good one. I suppose you hope to continue the autobiography at some time but in that case another title could be selected for the next volume. There is always an objection to the numbering of volumes (like Volume I05031and Volume II) unless they appear simultaneously.We do not often quote terms in competition, thinking that an author should select his publisher on more general grounds than a slight difference in royalty, but I fear you may be under obligations to allow other publishers to read the manuscript, so I suppose we must now submit to ordeal, though I should much prefer to have you offer terms to us or discuss with you what would be suitable terms, without having the book placed in competition. Our own proposal would be to pay you a royalty of fifteen per cent, on the retail price, increasing to twenty after the sale of three thousand copies in America. If you wish any more information or if there is anything that I can properly do to make our proposal or services more acceptable to[in margin: Scribner on Auto.]
you, please let me know.I return the manuscript herewith and also one of the drawings which was left with it.Yours sincerely[illegible]ToJohn Muir, esq.
Location
New York
Date Original
1911 Jun 1
Source
Original letter dimensions: 20 x 25 cm.
Recommended Citation
Scribner, Charles, "Letter from Charles Scribner to John Muir, 1911 Jun 1." (1911). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6093.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6093
Resource Identifier
muir20_0342-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0342
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
