Title:
Letter from [Robert Underwood Johnson] to John Muir, 1890 May 14.
Creator:
[Robert Underwood Johnson]
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:
1890 May 14
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir06_0482-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
…Union Square, New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
May 14th, 1890. John Muir, Esq., Martinez, Cal. Dear Mr. Muir: Your article was much too long for our purposes and
for our space; but by dint of omissions, chiefly of the detailed descriptions of the Water-Palls, (which will still be good
by themselves but which were on too large a scale for the picture we wanted to present, and also by the omission of the historical
part relating to the Yosemite, I have brought it within our limits. But why, oh why, did you not send with it a short description
of the Tuolumne Canyon, Meadows, and Mt. Lye 11 so that we might advertise it as a description of the proposed limits of the
New National Park, as well as a description of the Yosemite? It is an admirable article as it stands, and only lacks this
completeness. You spoke of sending this later, but as it has not come, I have telegraphed you to-day asking you for two thousand
words on the subject, which will reach us in time to be of use. The King's River article can follow another time. What I now
want to do is to make this article illegible of as much use as possible Ito the Vanderver bill to extend the limits, and it
is to set forth the natural wonders within those limits that I have depended upon you. I have not omitted from the MS as
sent to the printer either 0/425