Title:
Letter from J[oseph] B. Gilder to John Muir, 1904 Dec 3.
Creator:
J[oseph] B. Gilder
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1904 Dec 3
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir14_0673-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
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Transcription:
JOSEPH B. GILDER Literary Agent While disclaiming responsibility for manuscripts in his possession, Mr. Gilder takes every
precaution to prevent their loss. illegible NEW YORK CITY Telephone: 690-38th Street Cable: Gilderjo, New York 3 Dec
1904 John Muir, Esq., Martinez, Calif. Dear Mr Muir: The Review of Reviews people are about to start a new magazine,
largely on the lines of the English Country Life, and it is their intention to make it as sound on all matters relating to
gardening and forestry as Prof Sargent's illegible Garden and Forest was. I believe Prof Sargent himself is to help the editor,
in various ways; my friend Pinchot, the Forester, is booked as a contributor. The editor, Miss Frances Duncan, who has just
brought out through The Century Co. a capital little book, called Mary's Garden, is a delightful writer, and knows her subject
intimately and not as an amateur--except so far as that word indicates a lover of her subject. The magazine is splendidly
backed, and I think it is bound to help certain causes in which you are professionally interested. Naturally enough the editor
is very desirous of having your support in her undertaking, and (for less obvious reasons, but perhaps because she knows you
are a friend of my brother's), she has asked me to see if I can get your permission to have your name included in the list
of contributors, even if you are unable to promise a contribution to one of the earliest numbers. I am very glad to forward
her petition, as I do not think there can be too many periodicals that cultivate an interest in gardening, forestry, and the
study of nature in all its aspects. If you can see your way to giving the desired consent, I shall be delighted at having
been instrumental in securing it. Faithfully yours, illegible 03473