Title:
Letter from Ferris Greenslet to John Muir, 1909 May 25.
Creator:
Ferris Greenslet
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:
John Muir
Date:
1909 May 25
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0483-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 21 x 26.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
Boston
Rights:
Copyright status unknown
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Transcription:
EDITORIAL ROOMS HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY 4 PARK. STREET BOSTON May 25, 1909. Dear Mr. Muir, We have been greatly
interested here in the report that comes to us from Mr. Ticknor that you are at work upon an autobiography. We can think of
few books which we should take more pride and satisfaction in publishing than this. It seems to us that there would be a special
appropriateness in your giving it to us, and you may be sure that we should make every effort to arrange for its publication
upon terms entirely satisfactory to you, and that the sale of the book would not suffer in our hands through any lack of enthusiasm
for the author and his works. Furthermore, the Editors of the Atlantic Monthly are keenly interested in the news of the Autobiography,
and would like to consider the possibility of serializing it in that magazine. Can we not, perhaps, all cooperate, then, in
its publication in both serial and book fbrm ? We should be grateful if you would let us know the present situation of your
work upon the Autobiography and tell us your wishes in regard to the arrangements for its publication. Please believe us
Sincerely yours, illegible John Muir, Esq. 04507