Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 May 17.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies of the images
or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[Robert Underwood] Johnson
Date:
1894 May 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0264-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez May 17, 1894, My dear Mr. Johnson, I haven't heard from you for a long time. Mrs. Muir keeps inquiring what has
happened to Johnson? I tell her that you are up to the eyes in Magazine work, writing Polish poetry with Tesla etc. I should
have asked you to read the M.S. of my little book but had not the heart to put such a burden on you. I have corrected the
proof of the first four chapters. I see nothing of the Alaska articles yet. When are they coming out. You have not told me
whether you liked the changes I made in them. I had a pleasant visit from Sargent a month ago. He is coming out again in
the fall. The Sierra Club is going to blaze a trail make a few bridges in the Tuolumne Canon. If I get through with proof
reading in time I mean to lead the party. How would it do for you and Gilder to send your boys out here about a month from
now go through the Canon with me? I ll take good care of them, and after they reach our house they will require no blankets
bread or money other than the Lord I will provide--A good chance send them along Had a good letter the other day from David
Douglas with his portrait. With kind regards to Mrs. Johnson I am ever yours truly John Muir