Creator

John Muir

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.

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 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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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

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