Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Robert Underwood] Johnson, 1894 Apr 3.
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:
1894 Apr 3
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir08_0178-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
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The unpublished works of John Muir are copyrighted by the Muir-Hanna Trust.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
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
in margin: Prof? F illegible 26 Martinez, April 3, 1894 My dear Mr Johnson The book, begotten Heaven knows when is
finished and out of me, therefore Hurra etc. and thanks to you, very friend, for benevolent prodding. Six of the sixteen chapters
are new, and the others are nearly so, for I have worked hard on every one of them, leaning them against each other, adding
lots of new stuff, and killing adjectives and adverbs of redundant growth--the verys, intenses, gloriouses, ands and buts--by
the score. I feel sure the little alpine thing will not disappoint you. Anyhow I've done the best I could. Read the opening
chapter when you have time. In it I have ventured to drop into the poetry that I like but have taken good care to place it
between bluffs and buttresses of bald glacial geological facts. Mrs. Muir keeps asking me whether it is possible to get Johnson
to come out here this summer. She seems to regard you as a Polish brother. Why I'll be hanged if I know. I always thought
you too cosmically good to be of any clanish nation. By the way I wring these last months of abnormal cerebral activity I
have written another article for the Century which I'll send you soon. Ever very truly your friend John Muir