Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1896 Jul 5 .
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:
1896 Jul 5
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0281-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Hot Springs, S.D.
Rights:
Copyrighted
The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust. To purchase copies of images and/or obtain permission
to publish or exhibit them, see
http://library.pacific.edu/ha/forms
Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
51 This concerns the Sargent Nat Park Commission Muir was not a member but went with them and helped them letterhead
in margin: Helena Montana, will be our address for two weeks or so- July 5 1896 My dear Mr. Johnson We are fairly off
away into the western woods. Tomorrow we mean to go to Deadwood from there climb the highest of the Black Hills. The blackness
of which is from a covering of yellow pine. My old Sierra friend. This is its eastern limit All the Company- Sargent, Brewer,
Geo. Abbott Hague are good found fellows I feel a little like myself once more. And here, on the edge of the western woods
I turn towards you Wave my hand bless you for you know what John Muir