Title:
Letter from John Muir to [James] Whitehead, 1913 Mar 4.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
[James] Whitehead
Date:
1913 Mar 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir21_0182-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Original in possession of Mr. James Whitehead, Emporia, Kas. RECEIPT FOR REGISTERED ARTICLE NO 12800 Registered at the
Post Office Indicated in Postmark class postage Complete record of registered mail is kept at the post office, but the sender
should write the name of the addressee on back hereof as an identification. Preserve and submit this receipt in case of inquiry.
POSTMASTER, From 3806 Per--------- Martinez, California March 4, 1913. Dear Mr. Whitehead: About two or three weeks
ago I wrote you that I had directed my publishers to strike out of the sketch of your uncle Charles that part which gave you
pain in The Story of my Boyhood. As I feared, the corrections arrived too late for the first edition, but they will be made
in the plates for the second and all after editions, as you will see by enclosed page of letter.My first letter to you was
addressed Mountain Valley Springs Co,, Southern Club Building, 126 Central Ave. Kindly let me know whether it was received
or not. I should be glad to get news of your younger brother Benjamin. Faithfully yours, John Muir. Enclosure Editorial
Rooms Houghton Mifflin Company, 4 Park Street, Boston, February 25, 1913. Dear Mr. Muir: We have your letter of the 15th
with the corrections for the story of Poor Charlie in The Story of My Boyhood and Youth. We are sorry to say that these corrections
come too late for the first edition of the book, which is already printed, but we are ordering them made for the second edition.
We expect to publish the book on March 15th. We are using a portrait of you at a later period for the photogravure frontispiece,
since you were unable to find a contemporary photograph. We remainder of letter not preserved 05387