Creator
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
June 13th, 1894.
R.W. GILDER, EDITOR.
R.W. JOHNSON,
ASSOCIATE EDITOR.
C. C. BUEL,
ASSISTANT EDITOR.
My dear Muir:-
As I have written you, I am at work on the proofs of your book and am very glad' to have the pleasure of reading it before it goes to press.
Yesterday we telegraphed you about the second chapter and have your reply authorizing the omission of part of it. Your decision is judicious - to retain the first part of this chapter, which on reading it I should probably have advised retaining even if you had consented to the omission of the whole of it; but it seems to me that the reader is at once diverted from your subject too much by the particularity of the description of the Northern Islands - a description which is more technical than the general character of the book. I am sure you can use this material - perhaps by rewriting it - when you come to your second book on "The glaciers of the Pacific Coast." The omitted part also seems to me a little dry, and coming at the first would give the reader a wrong impression of the book.
I have made a few changes in the pages which have been cast, principally in the substitution or omission of adjectives like "grand", "glorious" and "charming", which occur rather too frequently for proper effect. In general, I
J.M.2would advise the substitution of specific descriptive adjectives for these of general significance.
I have now the proof of sixty galleys, making 240 pages, which I shall read at once so that the book will have the benefit of whatever value my attention may have.
Faithfully yours,
[illegible]
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal
[illegible]
01822I
Location
New York
Date Original
1894-06-13
Source
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Recommended Citation
Johnson, Robert Underwood, "Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1894 Jun 13." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6861.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6861
Resource Identifier
muir08_0303-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0303
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
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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
