Title:
Letter from W[illiam] B[elmont] Parker to John Muir, 1990 Dec 1.
Creator:
W[illiam] B[elmont] Parker
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:
1990 Dec 1
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0474-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21.5 x 28 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
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Transcription:
December 1, 1900. Dear Mr. Muir, The suggestion about your autobiography which I sent you a week or two ago on the spur
of the moment after a delightful talk with Mr. Burroughs was of course purely personal. I am happy now to write you that the
project or possibility seems equally attractive to Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin Company, and at the last meeting of the House
in committee it was the unanimous wish that you should write your biography and give them the opportunity to publish it.
To all of us here the idea of the book is very engaging: the untrammelled narrative of a life so varied as yours has been
in its activities, passed so largely in the more immediate presence of the great nature forces; and its inner experiences
probably not less varied attracts us strongly. The chance seems to be excellent, then, of your doing a great many people
a friendly turn, and it would give us genuine pleasure to learn that you were inclined to undertake it. Yours sincerely,
N. B. Parker. Mr. John Muir. 02809