Title:
Letter from Gifford Pinchot to John Muir, 1896 Oct 21.
Creator:
Gifford Pinchot
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1896 Oct 21
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0453-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27.5 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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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,