Creator
John Muir
Recipient
Osborn [family]
Transcription
To Mr. + Mrs. Henry Fairfield OsbornMartinez, Jan. 4, 1914Dear Friends Osborns:With all my heart I wish you a happy New Year. How hard yon have fought in the good fight to save the [illegible] Yosemite I well know. The battle has lasted twelve years, from Pinchot & Co. to President Wilson, and the wrong has prevailed over the best aroused sentiment of the whole country.That a lane lined with lies could be forced through the middle of the U. S. Congress is truly wonderful even in these confused political days-a devil's masterpiece of log-rolling road-making. But the approval of such a job by scholarly, virtuous, Princeton Wilson is the greatest wonder of all! Fortunately wrong cannot last; soon or late it must fall back home to hades, while some compensating good must surely follow.With the new year to new work right gladly we will go; you to your studies of God's lang syne people in their magnificent Wyoming-Idaho Mausoleums, I to crystal ice.Heaven bless you in all your ways,So devoutly prays your grateful admiring friendJohn Muir05667
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1914 Jan 4
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to Osborn [family], 1914 Jan 4." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6456.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6456
Resource Identifier
muir22_0033-trans.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0033
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
