Title:
Letter from C[harles] S. Sargent to John Muir, 1897 Feb 26.
Creator:
C[harles] S. Sargent
Publisher:
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Contributor:
John Muir
Date:
1897 Feb 26
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir09_0768-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 20 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Jamaica Plain, Mass
Rights:
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Transcription:
ARNOLD ARBORETUM, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Jamaica Plain, Mass., February 26, 1897. My dear Muir: I happened to see the
editor of The Atlantic Monthly yesterday who talked to me about Forest Reserves, etc., etc., and wanted the subject treated
in his journal. I told him that there was but one illegible , in the United States who could do it and that his name was John
Muir. He is going to write you today on the subject. I should be glad to see you a contributor to that venerable and rather
dull periodical. The circulation is not large out it carries weight in many good quarters and Still maintains its reputation
What is now wanted is a general discussion in as many places as possible of the Reserves and the necessity of some general
forest management. You can do this better than any one else because you know the subject and how to put in attractive form
what you have to say. We have an got to do a rot of hustling in the next year if anything really is to be accomplished, for
unless some wise aid. comprehensive scheme is adopted it well be impossible to hold the Reserves , and if they are allowed
to go, the total destruction of the western forests is merely a question of time. Mr. Page, the editor of the Atlantic, said
he would write you today and I sincerely hope that you will consider his proposition favorably. Faithfully yours, illegible
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