Creator
John Muir
Recipient
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Transcription
37
Martinez, Feb. 7, 1895
My dear Mr Johnson,
I take great pleasure in sending you today by registered mail the hard rubbed M S of Glacier Bay. I have done my best on it & believe I have now a capital article. Like a carpenter building with precious old lumber--
I, in tale adjoining,
Lift old treasures into day;
If not gold or perfect coining,
They are metals anyway:
Thou canst sort them, thou canst sunder,
Thou canst melt & make them one;
Then take that with smiling wonder,
Stamp it like thyself my son. If you like for I'll be hanged if I spend more time on it. Ive written every word of it over again.
Sargent sent me this the other day, which though too praisey for most people to see I am tempted to send you.
"I am reading your Sierra book & I want to tell you that I have never read discriptions of trees that so pictured them to the mind as yours do. No fellow who was at once a poet, naturalist, & a keen observer has to my knowledge ever written about trees before, & I believe you are the man who ought to have written a Silva of North America. Your book is one of the great productions of its kind & I congratulate you on it."
This is confidential. Dont show it to anybody. Ever Yours, John Muir
Bancroft Library
Location
Martinez, [Calif]
Date Original
1895-02-07
Source
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Recommended Citation
Muir, John, "Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1895 Feb 7." (1895). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 6991.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/6991
Resource Identifier
muir08_0821-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 08, Image 0821
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
