Title:
Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1911 Jan 18.
Creator:
R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1911 Jan 18
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir20_0070-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
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Transcription:
Robert Underwood Johnson, EDITOR. CLEARANCE CLOUGH BUEL, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR. January 18, 1911. Mr. John Muir, 325
West Adams Street. Los Angeles, California. Dear Muir: I am very glad to get your good letter of January 11th from Los
Angeles, also to know that you are working on the Yosemite book. I ll make a little memorandum of my relationship to the park,
as I remember it, and if it is any use to you all right, and if not, no bones will be broken. The President of our company,
Mr. Scott, who has been ill, is going out to California for a rest, and I think he is going to Los Angeles. He will want to
talk with you about your work - first of all, of course, the Yosemite book. Dont forget that we want your impressions of
South America. I wrote to you on that subject once before. I am delighted to know that you are writing on your autobiography.
Have you ever tried dictation? I thought I could not do anything with it in the way of composition, but I find that I can.
Faithfully yours R. U. Johnson P. S. We had a splendid time, and a most successful one, at the joint meeting of the Academy
and Institute. The high limits were: (1) John Bigelow's Recollections of Dumas read by himself at the age of ninety-two
with great clat. (2) Dr. Horace Howard Furness s Reading from Henry V. (He is seventy-eight years old.) This was a delightful
intellectual treat. (3) A superb essay by Brownell on Criticism. (4) A reception by the Mayor of New York at the Lenox
Library, and private dinners of the Institute and Academy. 04943