Title:
Letter from Houghton Mifflin Co. to John Muir, 1909 Feb 4.
Creator:
Houghton Mifflin Co.
Publisher:
The Houghton Library, Harvard University. 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 Feb 4
2008
Type:
Text
Format:
Image/jpeg2000
Identifier:
muir18_0132-md-1
Source:
Original letter dimensions unknown.
Language:
eng
Coverage:
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Rights:
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Transcription:
449 February 4,.1909. Dear Mr. Muir: As you know, we are going to bring out a new edition of Our National Parks next
fall, illustrated from photographs by Mr. Gleason. Thirty-two pictures are selected, which will illustrate the book very thoroughly
we think. It has occurred to us that you may want to take the opportunity to revise the book in some way, bringing it up to
date in certain passages where it may not describe accurately existing conditions, and perhaps adding a chapter giving an
account of the more recent additions to the list of national parks and forest reservations. If you did not care to write a
whole new chapter, perhaps the necessary information could be conveyed in a new preface. We think it would be greatly to the
advantage of readers of the book to have it, brought up to date in some such way, and we very much hope that you, will feel
inclined to adopt the suggestion. Please let us hear from you at your convenience, and accept the cordial good wishes of
the writer and of Yours very truly, illegible Mr. John Muir.