Title:
Letter from R[obert] U[nderwood] Johnson to John Muir, 1899 Mar 17.
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:
1899 Mar 17
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir10_0704-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 26.5 x 21 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
NewYork
Rights:
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Transcription:
March 17,1899 R.W. GILDER, EDITOR. R.U. JOHNSON, ASSOCIATE EDITOR. C. C. BUEL, ASSISTANT EDITOR. My dear John Muir,
Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote's address in San Francisco, at last accounts, was 1208 Leavenworth St. If you drop in on her, won't
you tell her that you were up at our farm and saw her old friends, Helena deKay and Richard Watson Gilder; that you were at
our house and saw us there; that you liked the farm, and that you hitched a glacier to it. By the way, I have written a great
long piece (semi-humorous and semi-serious stanzas) about that hitching and I don't know whether to show the lines to you
or not. Perhaps I may, and perhaps I mayn't Meantime I am expecting a letter from you, beginning with your early childhood
and going on with the vicis-situdes of youryouth, and later, the Reteoliections of a Naturalist. When you send them to me
I will have them copied and send copyback to you, and, before you know it, and without stopping your other work, you will
have a charming series of papers of the kind we talked about, that will be useful, amusing and instructive. Yours sincerely,
illegible John Muir, Esq 02553