Title:
Letter from John Muir to [Jeanne C.] Carr, 1888 Jan 12.
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:
[Jeanne C.] Carr
Date:
1888 Jan 12
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir05_0921-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 33 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Martinez, [Calif]
Rights:
Copyrighted
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Muir-Hanna Trust
1984
Transcription:
Martinez, Jan.12 '88. Dear Mrs. Carr: I can appreciate your difficulty in getting under way with that article -- so many
diverse winds of doctrine. I saw from your first M.S. that you had difficulty in getting launched. You were evidently trying
to do too much. No matter about the jogs and lifts of the Cordilleras and the resulting influence on human whims and purses,
etc. Just pitch in and paint your pictures -- whatever you see that interests you, and the changes if any that may be desired
may easily be made. If you look for and listen for more instructions you will write nothing freely. Just pitch in and finish
in whatever way now seems best in the light you have, remembering always that it is Picturesque California you are skething
and not philosophy of oranges and town lots south of the new Mason and Dixon Line. Look at the landscapes as the sun looks
at them. Fine preaching, isn't it? Your article will be first-rate, I have no doubt, though the introduction will have to
be cut off mostly. It reads too much like the preface of some Professor's big book. Strike right out into the midst of your
pictures and let the boundaries take care of themselves. Remember me to the doctor. Ever yours cordially, J. Muir Have
not yet seen your last M.S. (Envelope addressed to Mrs. Jeanne C. Carr, Pasadena, Cal.)