Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1897 Jun 18.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
The Bancroft Library, University of California at Berkeley. 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:
1897 Jun 18
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0918-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, June 18, 1897. My dear Mr Johnson. I have just finished that dog story will send it in a day or two. The story
easily told has been very hard to write I thnk it is fairly well done. Please look it over, if the magazine is going to be
so crowded that it can not be published within say five or six months, then return it, as Ill be hanged rather than let you
keep it as long as you have my last. Forest affairs have taken up most of last winter. An article I sent to Harpers Weekly
on the 16th of April was not published until June 5, too late to do any good I fear. Another is coming out in the Atlantic
for August, possibly another in October. There seems to be precious little arboreal bliss in Bliss. Dry goods dry rot mostly.
Those Western Corporations with their shady millions seem invincible in the Senate. But the fight must go on. Are you well
I may go to the Rockies again with Sargent. Have had Grippe Bancroft Library in margin: Ever cordially your friend John
Muir