Title:
Letter from John Muir to Osborn [family], 1914 Jan 4.
Creator:
John Muir
Publisher:
University of the Pacific Library Holt-Atherton Special Collections. Please contact this institution directly to obtain copies
of the images or permission to publish or use them beyond educational purposes.
Contributor:
Osborn [family]
Date:
1914 Jan 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir22_0034-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez [Calif.]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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to publish or exhibit them, see
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
To Mr. + Mrs. Henry Fairfield Osborn Martinez, Jan. 4, 1914 Dear Friends Osborns: With all my heart I wish you a happy
New Year. How hard yon have fought in the good fight to save the illegible Yosemite I well know. The battle has lasted twelve
years, from Pinchot Co. to President Wilson, and the wrong has prevailed over the best aroused sentiment of the whole country.
That a lane lined with lies could be forced through the middle of the U. S. Congress is truly wonderful even in these confused
political days-a devil's masterpiece of log-rolling road-making. But the approval of such a job by scholarly, virtuous, Princeton
Wilson is the greatest wonder of all Fortunately wrong cannot last; soon or late it must fall back home to hades, while some
compensating good must surely follow. With the new year to new work right gladly we will go; you to your studies of God's
lang syne people in their magnificent Wyoming-Idaho Mausoleums, I to crystal ice. Heaven bless you in all your ways, So
devoutly prays your grateful admiring friend John Muir05667