Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[4]My work in that campaign throws me back six months in my efforts to make new alignment, and our opponents succeeded in poisoning the minds of some persons previously well-disposed toward me, convincing them that I was "intemperate" (of course I had no chance to vindicate my position). I knocked out of our last (illustrated) [broadside?] Osborn's phrase "a dishonest bill" when to my horror he put it back! I believe this injured me in influential quarters where I was under consideration for a new exercise of my activity.I am now deep in the Academy matter on the theory that if I pull of the endowment I shall have a living salary as Permanent Secretary. I am making all sorts of sacrifices to keep at the work, having dropped every other means of livelihood. This is deadly private. I long to see you.Affectionately thineR.U. Johnson[1]327 Lexington Ave, May 18. 1914.Dear Muir:I am hard at work on the scheme to complete the endowment of the Academy, and I am turning over in my mind the plan of getting it by cities something like this:New York $400,00(we have already 1/4 of this)Chicago 200,000.Boston 100,000.Philadelphia 100,000.C[Conneticut?] 100,000.etc.05747
[3]of all its members their books, manuscripts, letters from distinguished persons portraits, &c.We wish to make these archives complete, interesting and important. That is likely to be the most permanent repository of such data. What can you contribute to it in this line — letters from Emerson Sir Joseph Hooker Torrey &c? Have you anything regarding the Muir' glacier? Where are your early MSS.? Have you ever had a good portrait (painting)?And now tell me how you are, what you are doing, & whether there is any hope to stave off the Hetch-Hetchy iniquity through the former litigation? I havent heard a word for two months.[2]I suppose San Francisco is so committed to the Exposition that there would be no chance of getting $50.000 of clean money there. Can you give me the names of any persons I might approach, say, five who could give $10,000 each?Another point: The Academy's archives must contain, ultimately, records
Location
[New York]
Date Original
1914 May 18
Source
Original letter dimensions: 17.5 x 22.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1914 May 18." (1914). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6541.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6541
Resource Identifier
muir22_0309-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 22, Image 0309
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
