Title:
Letter from Frances Duncan to John Muir, 1904 Dec 22.
Creator:
Frances Duncan
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:
1904 Dec 22
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir14_0725-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
The Country Calendar 13AST0R PLACE NEW YORKNew York, N. Y.,Dec. 22, 1904. Mr. John Muir; Martinez, Calif. Dear Sir:
You may possibly have heard of us through Mr. Gilder and will then know already? that The Country Calendar is the new magazine
which is coming out with the sponsorship of The Review of Reviews Company. Our stand and scope will be something that of
the English Country Life.The magazine will be beautifully illustrated but this we intend to be but an outward sign of the
inward, spiritual grace, of really worthy matter. We mean to give as solid information in modern methods of agriculture, horticulture
and intelligent forestry as the enfeebled digestion of the public can stand. Dr. Shaw's interest in the magazine insures
it breadth and sanity. Professor Sargent has been consulted on the trees and shrubs, and Samuel Parsons, Jr., is interested
in our landscape gardening and we have the cooperation of other experts. Now, will you write for us an article on the destruction
of the Redwoods at the hands of the wool, and mutton man? I know the subject was taken up in your National Parks but it was
one that can stand a little insistance. If the Redwoods do not tempt you, is there another subject on, which you would like
to write? I had feared you might be irrevocably wedded to The Atlantic, but Mr. Greenslet thought you would write something
for us, since we intend to fight a good fight for a sane and intelligent treatment of the forests which have found in you
their best advocate. We shall be very glad to bear from you. Very truly yours, Frances Duncan Associate Editor.
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