Creator
Gifford Pinchot
Recipient
John Muir
Transcription
GIFFORD PINCHOT,
CONSULTING FORESTER,
NEW YORK.
UNITED CHARITIES BUILDING,
FOURTH AVE. AND 22D ST.
Oct. 21st, 1896.
Mr. John Muir,
Martinez, Cal.
Dear Mr. Muir:-
I am sending you this hasty note (typewritten at that) just to say that I find a copy of The White Pine was sent to you as President of the Sierra Club in San Francisco. If it does not turn up speedily please let me know and I will be very glad indeed to send you another copy. I hope your opinion of it may be somewhat more favorable than that expressed by Mr. Fernow. In spite of the kindness of your interpretation I find his letter full of rather severe things, and since I read it to-day I have been considering how to answer it most effectively. I rather think it will be necessary to do so.
All our people are well and happy and much delighted that I was fortunate enough to spend so much time with you. I have told them the story of our day and night on the edge of the Canyon, much to their interest and pleasure, and I greatly wish that I could repeat to them the stories you told me that night. The next dog I get will be named after the one in your story.
We have a meeting of the Commission on Saturday of this week, at which I suppose the policy to be pursued will be decided. I am getting ready for it now and am somewhat anxious to know just how the eat will jump. It is a rather critical time.
I must ask you to excuse this hasty letter, dictated because in the immediate rush of business this is the only way I could write you.With many thanks for all your kindness, believe me,
Very sincerely yours,
Location
New York
Date Original
1896 Oct 21
Source
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
Recommended Citation
Pinchot, Gifford, "Letter from Gifford Pinchot to John Muir, 1896 Oct 21." (1896). John Muir Correspondence (PDFs). 851.
https://scholarlycommons.pacific.edu/muir-correspondence/851
Resource Identifier
muir09_0452-let.tif
File Identifier
Reel 09, Image 0452
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
Some letters written to John Muir may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
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
