Creator
Gifford Pinchot
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
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[letterhead]
July 23, 1896
Dear Mr. Muir,
I have some bad news to send you. the Commission has decided that I should be of some service to the general cause by spending more time in the Bitter Root Mountains than was intended at first. Consequently it will be impossible for me to get to Tacoma as early as I had hoped. and the Alaska trip is now beyond my reach. You will know, without any words from me, how sorry I am that matters have turned out in this way. I had already written home that I was going with you, and I know how sorry my people will be when I tell them, as I must tonight, that the plan is changed. It is now to spend not less than twenty days in the Clearwater & Salmon River country, going through to the open land
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[letterhead]
on one trail, & returning across the Bitter Root Mts. another Lieutenant Ahern is going along, and my assistant, Graves, will also join the party. So I hope to come out with a great deal of useful information of various kinds.
No one, so far as I can hear, has ever made quite a similar trip in this region, and so I am looking forward to finding a great deal of interesting in the forest, the topography, and the animals. Now I am wishing that we had known, for this trip might have tempted you to stay with us. It is a wonderfully rough country, they say, and almost unknown.
With much regret, and many thanks for your constant kindness, I am
Very sincerely yours,
Gifford Pinchot.
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Location
Missoula, Mont
Date Original
1896 Jul 23
Source
Original letter dimensions: 24 x 15 cm.
Recommended Citation
Pinchot, Gifford, "Letter from Gifford Pinchot to John Muir, 1896 Jul 23." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 813.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/813
Resource Identifier
muir09_0348-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0348
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
1 page
Keywords
Environmentalist, naturalist, travel, conservation, national parks, John Muir, Yosemite, California, history, correspondence, letters
