Title:
Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1889 Nov 21.
Creator:
R[obert] U[nderwood] 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:
1889 Nov 21
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir06_0282-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 27 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
…Union Square, New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
0/383 21st November, 1889 My dear Muir,- I inclose for your eye alone, the material concerning the Yosemite which we
shall have in the January number. Please do not let it get into anybody else's hands. When I reread it, I am astonished at
my own moderation. The press in the East I hope will take up the subject. You must see that now is the time for your article
on the Yosemite Valley, I mean your general descriptive article, and I want you to sit down at once and fix a date at which
we may expect the article; and then I want you to go right ahead with the article as rapidly as you can, while we will at
once proceed with the illustrations. We very much need to make use of the brilliant pictures, and will print them in a spring-number;
but we have to prepare for everything three or four months ahead, and we must be sure of having your MS. I know if you promise
with your hand on your left breast pocket, I can depend upon it. Do this and the past will all be forgiven. Remember me to
your wife and the children, whose faces I see everyday. Very Sincere Your ever illegible