Title:
Letter from Walter H. Page to John Muir, 1900 Mar 29.
Creator:
Walter H. Page
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:
1900 Mar 29
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0186-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE COMPANY CABLE ADDRESS: PUBLISHERS LONDON, SCOTOGRAPH 34 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK NEW YORK, DOUBLEPAGE March
29th,1900 My dear Mr Muir:- When I resigned the editorship of the Atlantic Monthly last Summer and left my good friends
in Boston to become a publisher on my own account, one of my keenest regrets was that I should not have the pleasure of handling
the matter that you are writing for them. This, however, does not prevent me from reading with keen pleasure all that you
write, and I have just read the article in the April Atlantic and heard the very tones of your voice in some of the sentences.
But you are not to escape the fate of my being your publisher, whatever comes; for we have made a contract with Mr Harriman
to bring out the books about the Alaskan expedition, under the editorship of Dr. Merriam. We are already beginning to set
in type the descriptive volume for which you are to write a chapter. I now have Mr Burroughs interesting contribution to it.
Dr Merriam in his good business fashion is getting very much in earnest about your contribution to this volume. I do not know
how much longer we can restrain him from unconsecrated violent language if you do not send the manuscript pretty soon. I therefore
take this occasion (and it is a pleasure to have even a wioked occasion to write to you) to send my very kindest regards and
to say that I am doing my best to keep Dr Merriam quiet. But you had better send copy, for I cannot answer for all the consequences,
if you do not. Yours very truly, illegible John Muir,Esq. Martinez, Cal. 02682