Creator
Ferris Greenslet
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
May 8, 1912.Dear Mr. Muir,Please forgive our delay in writing you concerning the final details of the publication of your book, "The Story of My Boyhood and Youth". After your very pleasant and satisfactory call the other day, we took up the matter afresh with the editors of the Atlantic Monthly, and the Youth's Companion. The former magazine is ready now to use four installments for $500.00, and make something of a feature of them in the prospectus of the coming fall, provided that we and you, are willing to defer publication of the book until after the first of the year. It has not been practicable to make any arrangement with the Youth's Companion. We believe that this prior appearance of the material in the Atlantic Monthly, quite apart from any question of the returns, to be distinctly serviceable as advance publicity in promoting the sale of the book. We are disposed therefore, at your agreement, to make this arrangement.The member of our firm who makes a specialty of executing contracts has been absent from the office with illness for some time past, but on his return we shall draw up a new contract in accordance with our new understanding, i.e., that it is not to embody the definite refusal of the next book in this series, and send it to you for your signature. We hope however, and we are pretty confident that the results of publication of this first volume will be such that you will decide to put Part 2 when it comes along, into our hands. If we may have it early enough, we can, we be-05192
lieve, arrange for its serialization in some one of the magazines on advantageous terms to you, and without committing you elsewhere for the book rights. You may be sure that we shall make every effort to that end. Please believe usFaithfully yours,[illegible]Mr. John Muir.FG/B05192
Location
Boston
Date Original
1912 May 8
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Greenslet, Ferris, "Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1912 May 8." (1912). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6267.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6267
Resource Identifier
muir20_0973-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 20, Image 0973
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
