Title:
Letter from Walter H. Page to John Muir, 1902 Nov 8.
Creator:
Walter H. Page
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:
1902 Nov 8
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir12_0771-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 27.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
Walter H. Page DOUBLEDAY, PAGE COMPANY 34 UNION SQUARE, NEW YORK Nov. 8th, 1902. My dear Mr. Muir:- I have not written
to you in illegible to your most excellent and good letter of some months ago only because a man who publishes books and gets
out magazines finish life disgustingly busy. Then I had another reason for silence for a little while. I had a sneaking hope
that this winter I might get out to California, for to accept your kind invitation to go to see you has been one of the things
that Mrs. illegible and I have carried in our minds since the old illegible days as the first step towards the celestial state.
Then, too, I am going to talk about books -- the books that you are going to give us after you get off those that you are
already illegible to for other people. My idea, you see, is to get your autobiography at illegible and and to get the biggest
books you have besides that, and then, as you begin to get old in days far in the future, it will be our house that will issue
your complete works in a illegible edition---books that will stand as long as the big trees that you have written about and
will outlast the glaciers among the mountains. Believe me, Sincerely yours, illegible John Muir, Esq, Martinez,
California. 03093