Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
[4]
Mrs. M. is waiting & watching for it with wild eagerness. Send me a copy as soon as possible, also Gilders book, & the book on proper names as an addition to the Grand Century dictionary & charge to my acct!
I had a delightful day with Drake. Wish I had seen more of him. If Burroughs wont or cant come with you & Gilders boy send Drake next spring.
With kind regards & everlasting admiration of your glacial shove & thrust against all wrong I am ever yours
John Muir
[1]
30
Martinez, Nov 7, 1894
My dear Johnson,
I have yours of Oct 31, Mrs. Muir heartily thanks you for the Tesla letter & has laid it away with Kenons & other illustrious specimens.
I think the book looks very well. The illustrations might have been better but as the book was made in a hurry, & in a sad democratic year I make no complaint. The type had it been a little smaller & heavier faced I think it would have been better for the reader & I am not sure that the few pages of scientific matter that were cut off had not better
Bancroft Library
[3]
have the refusal of them--but sure as fate they will be published!!!
I am heart & soul in favor of Sargents forestry bill, to turn over the whole care & management to the war department & so is the Sierra Club from wh I will see that you hear soon. This will be the solution of all forest troubles.
When is your Star book coming out
[2]
been left for although the book as it is, is full of the truest & hardest science the ordinary reader will not be able to see it. The few notices I have seen show this, but the few working scientists will not fail to see that the book is full of science especially of geology however covered & smothered with brush & bloom. Sometime I mean to write a hard geolical [sic] book. In the meantime I am writing a little book on Yosemities that will answer for a guide book. & I have a half dozen others in mind--letters, adventures, etc. The Century Co. will of course
Location
Martinez [Calif.]
Date Original
1894-11-07
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Nov 7." (1894). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6911.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6911
Resource Identifier
muir08_0493-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0493
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
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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
2 pages
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
