Title:
Letter from C[harles] S[prague] Sargent to John Muir, 1898 Jul 8.
Creator:
C[harles] S[prague] Sargent
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:
1898 Jul 8
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0264-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass.
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM HARVARD UNIVERSITY, Jamaica Plain, Mass, July 8, 1898. My dear Muir: I have yours of June 31st--many
thanks for your kind and appreciative words, few such come my way, but plenty of kicks. Thank heaven I the forest reservations
are safe as far as the land goes for another year. pinchot, of cource, in the Department of Agriculture will do a great deal
of harm, but I am in hopes he will soon wind himself up. we must combat where there is opportunity the idea that Pasturage
does no harm to forest, and we must fight to the illegible the scheme of political bummers for forest protectors. Abies magnifica
is still a thorn in the flesh. The last thing which has happened is the loss of Mr. Faxon's drawing of your flowering specimens
on the Bourgogne, as well as his drawing of the cone of the mr. shasta from. Still beyond the delay and the irksomeness of
having to redraw these two complicated and difficult Plates,the matter is not serious. Canby seems alive to our trip. There
is no reason why we should not all enjoy it. Always faithfully yours, illegible John Muir, Esq. Martinez, Cal. 02445