Creator
M[ illicent ] W. Shinn [Editor Overland]
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
[letterhead]
San Francisco, Dec. 30 1882
Dear Mr Muir:
When you kindly promised me something from your pen during the year, I did not mean to hurry you at all, but to leave it entirely according to your own convenience. But if you do happen to have anything in shape such that you could send it, it would be particularly acceptable now: for Noah Brooks and W. H. Rideing, both of whom solemnly and repeatedly promised to get copy to me in time for February issue, have neither of them appeared, and I do not see how I can possibly [deleted: get] wait more than three or four days more, and yet I don’t dare to go to press without some important person in my table of
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contents, for everybody is saying that if we can keep up to the level of the January number they will have some faith in it, but that they look for a great descent in February — and you would out-weigh both Brooks and Rideing. As I said to Dr Le Conte, I could not expect him to give here as careful work as he would prepare to sell in the East, and that anything that was careful enough for him to be himself willing to have appear over his name, I should be grateful for.
Sincerely M. W. [Shinn?]
We were all very sorry to miss you at the Overland dinner. Your name was often on people’s lips in my hearing.
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Location
San Francisco, [Calif]
Date Original
1882 Dec 30
Source
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 14 cm.
Recommended Citation
Shinn, Millicent W., "Letter from M[ illicent ] W. Shinn [Editor Overland] to John Muir, 1882 Dec 30." (1882). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 737.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/737
Resource Identifier
muir04_0989-md-1.pdf
File Identifier
Reel 04, Image 0988
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
