Title:
Letter from Ray S. Baker to John Muir, 1901 Aug 21.
Creator:
Ray S. Baker
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:
1901 Aug 21
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir11_0834-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions: 28 x 21.5 cm.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
New York
Rights:
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Transcription:
THE S.S. McCLURE COMPANY, PUBLISHERS, NEW YORK AND LONDON, EDITORIAL ROOMS 141 EAST TWENTY-FIFTH ST. NEW YORK. August
21, 1901. Mr, John Muir, Martinez, California. My dear Mr. Muir; I have been wondering if you have returned yet from
the Yosemite trip with the Sierra Club. It was a great disappointment to me that I could not go along and enjoy with you a
season of wilderness, but my work would not permit. Since my visit with you I have been working as I could on an article
which I hope may give the readers of Mc Clure's Magazine a better acquaintance with you. I shall venture presently to send
you a copy of the manuscript. I have endeavored to make the article thoroughly accurate, but having to depend somewhat upon
my memory of the things we talked about, I may have slipped into error. I recall your having expressed admiration for Walter
Bagehot's Essays. Our firm has recently issued a rather nice special edition of his Shakespeare The Man which I thought you
might like to have, and I am therefore sending it to you. I saw Mr. Johnson the other day, and told him of my visit with
you. Very sincerely yours, Ray S. Baker. P. S. I have retained the magazines and pamphlets which you so kindly permitted
me to take longer than I expected, but I hope soon to return them. 02885